Since "testing" is a common use for a Git hook, my question is hard to search for.
I'm writing a fairly involved git post-receive hook and want to know what the best way to test it is. Currently my process is:
- make changes to post-receive in a dummy "remote" repo
- make a change to a dummy local repo
- commit change in dummy local repo
- push change to dummy remote repo
Is there any easier way to test this? Ideally it would look like:
- make change(s) to post-receive in a dummy repo
- issue "magic" command to test post-receive
Perhaps I can "reissue" a previous push or have the remote repo act as though it just received a push with a specific hash?
Answer
Write a hook that just records its arguments/environment and dumps that to a file. Then you can just re-invoke the real hook at your leisure with the same environment/arguments and it will act as though you just re-issued the exact same push.