Subject: Re: process committed files in post-receive hook

From: Michael Schubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:21:54 +0100

On 12/10/2011 11:29 AM, Hao wrote:
> I am writing a post-receive hook in Python that examines the content of some 
> files (the HEAD rev). Because the repo is a bare one on the server. My current 
> approach is to check out a working copy on the server and run 'git pull' in post-
> receive to get the most up-to-date version, and then process files in the 
> working copy.

You could do something like this as a post-receive hook:

#!/bin/sh

test_dir=$(mktemp -d /tmp/test.XXXXXXXXXX)
GIT_WORK_TREE=$test_dir git checkout -f
/usr/local/bin/check.py $test_dir
rm -rf $test_dir