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diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt index 81f2a87e88..cf95d6d02b 100644 --- a/Documentation/githooks.txt +++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt @@ -193,7 +193,9 @@ worktree. The hook is given three parameters: the ref of the previous HEAD, the ref of the new HEAD (which may or may not have changed), and a flag indicating whether the checkout was a branch checkout (changing branches, flag=1) or a file checkout (retrieving a file from the index, flag=0). -This hook cannot affect the outcome of `git switch` or `git checkout`. +This hook cannot affect the outcome of `git switch` or `git checkout`, +other than that the hook's exit status becomes the exit status of +these two commands. It is also run after linkgit:git-clone[1], unless the `--no-checkout` (`-n`) option is used. The first parameter given to the hook is the null-ref, the second the @@ -404,6 +406,35 @@ Both standard output and standard error output are forwarded to `git send-pack` on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages for the user. +reference-transaction +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +This hook is invoked by any Git command that performs reference +updates. It executes whenever a reference transaction is prepared, +committed or aborted and may thus get called multiple times. + +The hook takes exactly one argument, which is the current state the +given reference transaction is in: + + - "prepared": All reference updates have been queued to the + transaction and references were locked on disk. + + - "committed": The reference transaction was committed and all + references now have their respective new value. + + - "aborted": The reference transaction was aborted, no changes + were performed and the locks have been released. + +For each reference update that was added to the transaction, the hook +receives on standard input a line of the format: + + <old-value> SP <new-value> SP <ref-name> LF + +The exit status of the hook is ignored for any state except for the +"prepared" state. In the "prepared" state, a non-zero exit status will +cause the transaction to be aborted. The hook will not be called with +"aborted" state in that case. + push-to-checkout ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |