Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] receive-pack: fix updateInstead with core.worktree

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 07:54:11 +0900

Alyssa Ross <[email-masked]> writes:

> Previously, only one of push_to_checkout() or push_to_deploy() was
> called.  In a8cc594333 (hooks: fix an obscure TOCTOU "did we just run a
> hook?" race, 2022-03-07), this was changed to always call
> push_to_checkout(), and then to call push_to_deploy() if
> push_to_checkout() didn't run anything.  This change didn't take into
> account that push_to_checkout() had a side effect of modifying env, and
> that modified env broke updating the worktree in push_to_deploy() if
> core.worktree was configured.  To fix this, only mutate the environment
> used inside push_to_commit(), rather than the environment that might
> later be passed to push_to_deploy().
>
> Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <[email-masked]>
> ---
> v2: reword commit message in response to feedback

You also fixed an incorrectly indentated line in the new test, which
is very much appreciated.

Will queue.  Thanks.

>
>  builtin/receive-pack.c |  2 +-
>  t/t5516-fetch-push.sh  | 11 +++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/receive-pack.c b/builtin/receive-pack.c
> index c7b2818f20..7ee157532d 100644
> --- a/builtin/receive-pack.c
> +++ b/builtin/receive-pack.c
> @@ -1460,8 +1460,8 @@ static const char *push_to_checkout(unsigned char *hash,
>  
>  	opt.invoked_hook = invoked_hook;
>  
> -	strvec_pushf(env, "GIT_WORK_TREE=%s", absolute_path(work_tree));
>  	strvec_pushv(&opt.env, env->v);
> +	strvec_pushf(&opt.env, "GIT_WORK_TREE=%s", absolute_path(work_tree));
>  	strvec_push(&opt.args, hash_to_hex(hash));
>  	if (run_hooks_opt(the_repository, push_to_checkout_hook, &opt))
>  		return "push-to-checkout hook declined";
> diff --git a/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh b/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
> index 117cfa051f..db6cc18673 100755
> --- a/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
> +++ b/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
> @@ -1791,6 +1791,17 @@ test_expect_success 'updateInstead with push-to-checkout hook' '
>  	)
>  '
>  
> +test_expect_success 'denyCurrentBranch and core.worktree' '
> +	test_when_finished "rm -fr cloned cloned.git" &&
> +	git clone --separate-git-dir cloned.git . cloned &&
> +	git --git-dir cloned.git config receive.denyCurrentBranch updateInstead &&
> +	git --git-dir cloned.git config core.worktree "$PWD/cloned" &&
> +	test_commit raspberry &&
> +	git push cloned.git HEAD:main &&
> +	test_path_exists cloned/raspberry.t &&
> +	test_must_fail git push --delete cloned.git main
> +'
> +
>  test_expect_success 'denyCurrentBranch and worktrees' '
>  	test_when_finished "rm -fr cloned && git worktree remove --force new-wt" &&
>  	git worktree add new-wt &&
>
> base-commit: aec3f587505a472db67e9462d0702e7d463a449d