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-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/githooks.txt12
-rw-r--r--cache.h1
-rw-r--r--config.c3
-rw-r--r--environment.c1
-rw-r--r--run-command.c5
-rwxr-xr-xt/t1350-config-hooks-path.sh37
7 files changed, 71 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 2cd6bdd7d2..7f8c119b2f 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -618,6 +618,23 @@ core.attributesFile::
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not
set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/attributes is used instead.
+core.hooksPath::
+ By default Git will look for your hooks in the
+ '$GIT_DIR/hooks' directory. Set this to different path,
+ e.g. '/etc/git/hooks', and Git will try to find your hooks in
+ that directory, e.g. '/etc/git/hooks/pre-receive' instead of
+ in '$GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-receive'.
++
+The path can be either absolute or relative. A relative path is
+taken as relative to the directory where the hooks are run (see
+the "DESCRIPTION" section of linkgit:githooks[5]).
++
+This configuration variable is useful in cases where you'd like to
+centrally configure your Git hooks instead of configuring them on a
+per-repository basis, or as a more flexible and centralized
+alternative to having an `init.templateDir` where you've changed
+default hooks.
+
core.editor::
Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit
messages by launching an editor uses the value of this
diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt
index 30495745a0..d82e912e55 100644
--- a/Documentation/githooks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt
@@ -7,15 +7,19 @@ githooks - Hooks used by Git
SYNOPSIS
--------
-$GIT_DIR/hooks/*
+$GIT_DIR/hooks/* (or \`git config core.hooksPath`/*)
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Hooks are programs you can place in the `$GIT_DIR/hooks` directory to
-trigger actions at certain points in git's execution. Hooks that don't
-have the executable bit set are ignored.
+Hooks are programs you can place in a hooks directory to trigger
+actions at certain points in git's execution. Hooks that don't have
+the executable bit set are ignored.
+
+By default the hooks directory is `$GIT_DIR/hooks`, but that can be
+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
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index b829410f6d..a7529b0233 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -655,6 +655,7 @@ extern int shared_repository;
extern const char *apply_default_whitespace;
extern const char *apply_default_ignorewhitespace;
extern const char *git_attributes_file;
+extern const char *git_hooks_path;
extern int zlib_compression_level;
extern int core_compression_level;
extern int core_compression_seen;
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 9ba40bc1b0..9ef5fde785 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -717,6 +717,9 @@ static int git_default_core_config(const char *var, const char *value)
if (!strcmp(var, "core.attributesfile"))
return git_config_pathname(&git_attributes_file, var, value);
+ if (!strcmp(var, "core.hookspath"))
+ return git_config_pathname(&git_hooks_path, var, value);
+
if (!strcmp(var, "core.bare")) {
is_bare_repository_cfg = git_config_bool(var, value);
return 0;
diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c
index 6dec9d0403..a14d115023 100644
--- a/environment.c
+++ b/environment.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ int shared_repository = PERM_UMASK;
const char *apply_default_whitespace;
const char *apply_default_ignorewhitespace;
const char *git_attributes_file;
+const char *git_hooks_path;
int zlib_compression_level = Z_BEST_SPEED;
int core_compression_level;
int core_compression_seen;
diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c
index c72601056c..aa85cd5c3c 100644
--- a/run-command.c
+++ b/run-command.c
@@ -815,7 +815,10 @@ const char *find_hook(const char *name)
static struct strbuf path = STRBUF_INIT;
strbuf_reset(&path);
- strbuf_git_path(&path, "hooks/%s", name);
+ if (git_hooks_path)
+ strbuf_addf(&path, "%s/%s", git_hooks_path, name);
+ else
+ strbuf_git_path(&path, "hooks/%s", name);
if (access(path.buf, X_OK) < 0)
return NULL;
return path.buf;
diff --git a/t/t1350-config-hooks-path.sh b/t/t1350-config-hooks-path.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..5e3fb3a6af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t1350-config-hooks-path.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='Test the core.hooksPath configuration variable'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+test_expect_success 'set up a pre-commit hook in core.hooksPath' '
+ mkdir -p .git/custom-hooks .git/hooks &&
+ write_script .git/custom-hooks/pre-commit <<-\EOF &&
+ echo CUSTOM >>actual
+ EOF
+ write_script .git/hooks/pre-commit <<-\EOF
+ echo NORMAL >>actual
+ EOF
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'Check that various forms of specifying core.hooksPath work' '
+ test_commit no_custom_hook &&
+ git config core.hooksPath .git/custom-hooks &&
+ test_commit have_custom_hook &&
+ git config core.hooksPath .git/custom-hooks/ &&
+ test_commit have_custom_hook_trailing_slash &&
+ git config core.hooksPath "$PWD/.git/custom-hooks" &&
+ test_commit have_custom_hook_abs_path &&
+ git config core.hooksPath "$PWD/.git/custom-hooks/" &&
+ test_commit have_custom_hook_abs_path_trailing_slash &&
+ cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
+ NORMAL
+ CUSTOM
+ CUSTOM
+ CUSTOM
+ CUSTOM
+ EOF
+ test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_done