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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-05-04 16:26:46 +0900
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-05-04 16:26:46 +0900
commitc8ddd2aa116710e3442bc54cd750824a88a900d4 (patch)
tree96164fa3bf625e72f69879ca41420d3cd668e990 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'rg/doc-submittingpatches-wordfix' (diff)
parentgithooks.txt: clarify push hooks are always executed in $GIT_DIR (diff)
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Merge branch 'sr/hooks-cwd-doc'
* sr/hooks-cwd-doc: githooks.txt: clarify push hooks are always executed in $GIT_DIR
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@@ -22,8 +22,10 @@ changed via the `core.hooksPath` configuration variable (see
linkgit:git-config[1]).
Before Git invokes a hook, it changes its working directory to either
-the root of the working tree in a non-bare repository, or to the
-$GIT_DIR in a bare repository.
+$GIT_DIR in a bare repository or the root of the working tree in a non-bare
+repository. An exception are hooks triggered during a push ('pre-receive',
+'update', 'post-receive', 'post-update', 'push-to-checkout') which are always
+executed in $GIT_DIR.
Hooks can get their arguments via the environment, command-line
arguments, and stdin. See the documentation for each hook below for