Re: What is the working directory for post-update hook?

From: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Date: 2006-02-05 21:58:26
On Sunday 05 February 2006 09:41, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes:
> > The document root of my website has a git repository under it (in the
> > standard .git subdirectory) and want a post update hook to checkout the
> > contents (so the web server sees it!)
> >
> > I will be pushing to it via ssh.
> >
> > Does this mean that the post-update hook with be run with a working
> > directory of the web site's document root? or something relative (such as
> > GIT_DIR) so that I don't have to do a specific cd to an absolute path.
>
> The current implementation happens to chdir to GIT_DIR and sets
> GIT_DIR=. in the environment, so if you have something like
> this:
>
> 	/var/www/myproject/
> 	/var/www/myproject/.git/
> 	/var/www/myproject/.git/HEAD
> 	/var/www/myproject/.git/...
>         /var/www/myproject/README
>
> Then $(pwd) would be /var/www/myproject/.git/.  Your hook would
> probably be able to do "cd .."  to get to the project top.
>

I did get it to work doing a cd .. - although you also have to unset GIT_DIR, 
because its is literally "." and not the directory that was "." at the time 
of setting, so a cd .. ; checkout -f then fails with an invalid repository.

-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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