On Friday 30 May 2008, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > I'm trying to setup a post-receive hook to do a checkout -f when I push to > a public repo (it's a web based tool and I want the executables to be > updated with a push) > > unfortunantly if I just add git checkout -f to the post-receive hooks it > checks the files out in the .git directory. > > if I do a cd .. ; git checkout -f I get an error message complaining that > it's not in a git repository, but if I manually cd to that directory and > do a checkout it works. > > what am I missing here? I'm guessing that the post-receive hook is invoked with "GIT_DIR=.", which goes bad the moment you chdir anywhere. I have this in my own update hook script: if [ "$GIT_DIR" = "." ]; then GIT_DIR=`pwd` fi If you do this before the "cd .. ; git checkout -f", you might have better luck. Have fun! :) ...Johan -- Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> www.herland.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
