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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Stephen Morton <stephen.c.morton@gmail•com>
Cc: "git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Sample pre-push hook can crash
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 13:43:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq37rydn6b.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH8BJxHeyfpKsvjGfg5ZJ5YDQk6pzZp4ufHVEV=cFriL8j_4uw@mail.gmail.com> (Stephen Morton's message of "Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:22:14 -0500")

Stephen Morton <stephen.c.morton@gmail•com> writes:

> The sample pre-push hook provided with git [1] will crash if the local
> repo is not up to date with the remote as $remote_sha is not present
> in the local repo. I'm not sure if this patch is exactly correct, it's
> just provided as an example.
>
> Given that people are likely crafting their own solutions based on the
> examples, it's probably good to get right.

It's probably good to get right, but I do not think use of @{u} is
making it right, unfortunately.  You may not necessarily have @{u}
configured, and you may not even pushing to the configured remote
branch.

The spirit of the sample hook, I think, is to validate the new
commits you are publishing, so if you cannot even determine which
ones are new and which ones are not, failing the "push" by exiting
with non-zero status is the right behaviour for this sample.

So perhaps something like this may be more appropriate as an
example.

 templates/hooks--pre-push.sample | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/templates/hooks--pre-push.sample b/templates/hooks--pre-push.sample
index 6187dbf..7ef6780 100755
--- a/templates/hooks--pre-push.sample
+++ b/templates/hooks--pre-push.sample
@@ -41,7 +41,12 @@ do
 		fi
 
 		# Check for WIP commit
-		commit=`git rev-list -n 1 --grep '^WIP' "$range"`
+		commit=`git rev-list -n 1 --grep '^WIP' "$range"` || {
+			# we do not even know about the range...
+			echo >&2 "Non-ff update to $remote_ref"
+			echo >&2 "fetch from there first"
+			exit 1
+		}
 		if [ -n "$commit" ]
 		then
 			echo >&2 "Found WIP commit in $local_ref, not pushing"

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-10 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-10 21:22 Sample pre-push hook can crash Stephen Morton
2016-03-10 21:43 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-03-11 14:33   ` Stephen Morton
2016-03-11 20:04     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-11 20:35       ` Stephen Morton

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