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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/githooks.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt index 32343ae295..706091a569 100644 --- a/Documentation/githooks.txt +++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt @@ -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 |