From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro•umontreal.ca>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Post-receive hook for "git pull"
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 11:54:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqio4am3uk.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4mful6nu.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.version-control.git@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 07 Dec 2015 08:47:58 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro•umontreal.ca> writes:
> I have a system here where it can be quite common to have thousands of
> branches in the remote repository, and where I'd like to update some
> local state according to the appearance of new branches (or updates of
> pre-existing ones).
>
> Currently, I use a "git for-each-ref" after pulling and then check (for
> each one of those refs) if an update is warranted, but this can get slow
> with that many branches. Is there some way to get something like the
> post-receive hook to be run for "git pull", so that the script gets told
> directly which (remote tracking) branches have been modified/created?
I do not think there is. But you could easily script along the
lines of...
#!/bin/sh
git for-each-ref | sort >prestate
git pull "$@"
git for-each-ref | sort >poststate
comm -12 prestate poststate
... or something like that, no?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-07 19:54 UTC|newest]
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2015-12-07 13:47 Post-receive hook for "git pull" Stefan Monnier
2015-12-07 19:54 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-02-12 13:39 ` Stefan Monnier
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