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authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-12-19 16:35:48 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-12-19 16:38:16 -0800
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Documentation: stdout of update-hook is connected to /dev/null
Mention that update-hook does not emit its stdout to the sender. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/hooks.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt8
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hooks.txt b/Documentation/hooks.txt
index 7ee3571bc..4ad1920ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/hooks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/hooks.txt
@@ -111,6 +111,10 @@ Another use suggested on the mailing list is to use this hook to
implement access control which is finer grained than the one
based on filesystem group.
+The standard output of this hook is sent to /dev/null; if you
+want to report something to the git-send-pack on the other end,
+you can redirect your output to your stderr.
+
post-update
-----------
@@ -125,3 +129,7 @@ the outcome of `git-receive-pack`.
The default post-update hook, when enabled, runs
`git-update-server-info` to keep the information used by dumb
transport up-to-date.
+
+The standard output of this hook is sent to /dev/null; if you
+want to report something to the git-send-pack on the other end,
+you can redirect your output to your stderr.
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt
index ebd025db8..02621b54a 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The pages under http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
are built from Documentation/ directory of the git.git project
and needed to be kept up-to-date. The www.kernel.org/ servers
are mirrored and I was told that the origin of the mirror is on
-the machine master.kernel.org, on which I was given an account
+the machine $some.kernel.org, on which I was given an account
when I took over git maintainership from Linus.
The directories relevant to this how-to are these two:
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ like this:
EOF
$ chmod +x /pub/scm/git/git.git/hooks/post-update
-There are three things worth mentioning:
+There are four things worth mentioning:
- The update-hook is run after the repository accepts a "git
push", under my user privilege. It is given the full names
@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ There are three things worth mentioning:
pull" it does into $HOME/doc-git/docgen/ repository would not
work correctly.
+ - The stdout of update hook script is not connected to git
+ push; I run the heavy part of the command inside "at", to
+ receive the execution report via e-mail.
+
- This is still crude and does not protect against simultaneous
make invocations stomping on each other. I would need to add
some locking mechanism for this.