I have a bare repo server-side, and I am able to successfully commit and push from my local machine. However, the post-receive hook is not running. Details:
- Using SSH as protocol
- I have renamed the standard "post-receive.sample" to "post-receive"
- This file has
-rwxr-xr-xpermissions - The file is owned by the same user that owns the repo, which is the same SSH user that logs in and pushes
- The actual pushing goes fine; files are updated - it's just the hook that does not run
- I tried putting
echo "Some text"before and after the hook, but this is not shown (see: Post Commit Hook Not Running). - Hook script is included below, although this appears not to be causing the problem
- Using git 1.7.0.4 on Ubuntu 10.04
.
user@server:/home/repos/project1/hooks# cat post-receive
#!/bin/sh
echo "Hook is running..."
export GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/web/project1/www/
git checkout -f
rm -rf /home/web/project1/www/temp/
Answer
In order for a Git hook to run, it needs to have permissions set to allow it to be executable. If a hook doesn't seem to be running, check the permissions, and make sure it's executable. If it isn't you can make all hooks executable like this:
chmod ug+x .git/hooks/*
...or if you want to make a single hook (eg. post-receive) executable:
chmod ug+x .git/hooks/post-receive
(Thanks to this post)