4 Hooks are little scripts you can place in `$GIT_DIR/hooks`
5 directory to trigger action at certain points. When
6 `git-init` is run, a handful example hooks are copied in the
7 `hooks` directory of the new repository, but by default they are
8 all disabled. To enable a hook, make it executable with `chmod +x`.
10 This document describes the currently defined hooks.
15 This hook is invoked by `git-am` script. It takes a single
16 parameter, the name of the file that holds the proposed commit
17 log message. Exiting with non-zero status causes
18 `git-am` to abort before applying the patch.
20 The hook is allowed to edit the message file in place, and can
21 be used to normalize the message into some project standard
22 format (if the project has one). It can also be used to refuse
23 the commit after inspecting the message file.
25 The default 'applypatch-msg' hook, when enabled, runs the
26 'commit-msg' hook, if the latter is enabled.
31 This hook is invoked by `git-am`. It takes no parameter, and is
32 invoked after the patch is applied, but before a commit is made.
34 If it exits with non-zero status, then the working tree will not be
35 committed after applying the patch.
37 It can be used to inspect the current working tree and refuse to
38 make a commit if it does not pass certain test.
40 The default 'pre-applypatch' hook, when enabled, runs the
41 'pre-commit' hook, if the latter is enabled.
46 This hook is invoked by `git-am`. It takes no parameter,
47 and is invoked after the patch is applied and a commit is made.
49 This hook is meant primarily for notification, and cannot affect
50 the outcome of `git-am`.
55 This hook is invoked by `git-commit`, and can be bypassed
56 with `\--no-verify` option. It takes no parameter, and is
57 invoked before obtaining the proposed commit log message and
58 making a commit. Exiting with non-zero status from this script
59 causes the `git-commit` to abort.
61 The default 'pre-commit' hook, when enabled, catches introduction
62 of lines with trailing whitespaces and aborts the commit when
65 All the `git-commit` hooks are invoked with the environment
66 variable `GIT_EDITOR=:` if the command will not bring up an editor
67 to modify the commit message.
72 This hook is invoked by `git-commit` right after preparing the
73 default log message, and before the editor is started.
75 It takes one to three parameters. The first is the name of the file
76 that the commit log message. The second is the source of the commit
77 message, and can be: `message` (if a `\-m` or `\-F` option was
78 given); `template` (if a `\-t` option was given or the
79 configuration option `commit.template` is set); `merge` (if the
80 commit is a merge or a `.git/MERGE_MSG` file exists); `squash`
81 (if a `.git/SQUASH_MSG` file exists); or `commit`, followed by
82 a commit SHA1 (if a `\-c`, `\-C` or `\--amend` option was given).
84 If the exit status is non-zero, `git-commit` will abort.
86 The purpose of the hook is to edit the message file in place, and
87 it is not suppressed by the `\--no-verify` option. A non-zero exit
88 means a failure of the hook and aborts the commit. It should not
89 be used as replacement for pre-commit hook.
91 The sample `prepare-commit-msg` hook that comes with git comments
92 out the `Conflicts:` part of a merge's commit message.
97 This hook is invoked by `git-commit`, and can be bypassed
98 with `\--no-verify` option. It takes a single parameter, the
99 name of the file that holds the proposed commit log message.
100 Exiting with non-zero status causes the `git-commit` to
103 The hook is allowed to edit the message file in place, and can
104 be used to normalize the message into some project standard
105 format (if the project has one). It can also be used to refuse
106 the commit after inspecting the message file.
108 The default 'commit-msg' hook, when enabled, detects duplicate
109 "Signed-off-by" lines, and aborts the commit if one is found.
114 This hook is invoked by `git-commit`. It takes no
115 parameter, and is invoked after a commit is made.
117 This hook is meant primarily for notification, and cannot affect
118 the outcome of `git-commit`.
123 This hook is invoked when a `git-checkout` is run after having updated the
124 worktree. The hook is given three parameters: the ref of the previous HEAD,
125 the ref of the new HEAD (which may or may not have changed), and a flag
126 indicating whether the checkout was a branch checkout (changing branches,
127 flag=1) or a file checkout (retrieving a file from the index, flag=0).
128 This hook cannot affect the outcome of `git-checkout`.
130 This hook can be used to perform repository validity checks, auto-display
131 differences from the previous HEAD if different, or set working dir metadata
137 This hook is invoked by `git-merge`, which happens when a `git pull`
138 is done on a local repository. The hook takes a single parameter, a status
139 flag specifying whether or not the merge being done was a squash merge.
140 This hook cannot affect the outcome of `git-merge`.
142 This hook can be used in conjunction with a corresponding pre-commit hook to
143 save and restore any form of metadata associated with the working tree
144 (eg: permissions/ownership, ACLS, etc). See contrib/hooks/setgitperms.perl
145 for an example of how to do this.
151 This hook is invoked by `git-receive-pack` on the remote repository,
152 which happens when a `git push` is done on a local repository.
153 Just before starting to update refs on the remote repository, the
154 pre-receive hook is invoked. Its exit status determines the success
155 or failure of the update.
157 This hook executes once for the receive operation. It takes no
158 arguments, but for each ref to be updated it receives on standard
159 input a line of the format:
161 <old-value> SP <new-value> SP <ref-name> LF
163 where `<old-value>` is the old object name stored in the ref,
164 `<new-value>` is the new object name to be stored in the ref and
165 `<ref-name>` is the full name of the ref.
166 When creating a new ref, `<old-value>` is 40 `0`.
168 If the hook exits with non-zero status, none of the refs will be
169 updated. If the hook exits with zero, updating of individual refs can
170 still be prevented by the <<update,'update'>> hook.
172 Both standard output and standard error output are forwarded to
173 `git-send-pack` on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages
180 This hook is invoked by `git-receive-pack` on the remote repository,
181 which happens when a `git push` is done on a local repository.
182 Just before updating the ref on the remote repository, the update hook
183 is invoked. Its exit status determines the success or failure of
186 The hook executes once for each ref to be updated, and takes
189 - the name of the ref being updated,
190 - the old object name stored in the ref,
191 - and the new objectname to be stored in the ref.
193 A zero exit from the update hook allows the ref to be updated.
194 Exiting with a non-zero status prevents `git-receive-pack`
195 from updating that ref.
197 This hook can be used to prevent 'forced' update on certain refs by
198 making sure that the object name is a commit object that is a
199 descendant of the commit object named by the old object name.
200 That is, to enforce a "fast forward only" policy.
202 It could also be used to log the old..new status. However, it
203 does not know the entire set of branches, so it would end up
204 firing one e-mail per ref when used naively, though. The
205 <<post-receive,'post-receive'>> hook is more suited to that.
207 Another use suggested on the mailing list is to use this hook to
208 implement access control which is finer grained than the one
209 based on filesystem group.
211 Both standard output and standard error output are forwarded to
212 `git-send-pack` on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages
215 The default 'update' hook, when enabled--and with
216 `hooks.allowunannotated` config option turned on--prevents
217 unannotated tags to be pushed.
223 This hook is invoked by `git-receive-pack` on the remote repository,
224 which happens when a `git push` is done on a local repository.
225 It executes on the remote repository once after all the refs have
228 This hook executes once for the receive operation. It takes no
229 arguments, but gets the same information as the
230 <<pre-receive,'pre-receive'>>
231 hook does on its standard input.
233 This hook does not affect the outcome of `git-receive-pack`, as it
234 is called after the real work is done.
236 This supersedes the <<post-update,'post-update'>> hook in that it gets
237 both old and new values of all the refs in addition to their
240 Both standard output and standard error output are forwarded to
241 `git-send-pack` on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages
244 The default 'post-receive' hook is empty, but there is
245 a sample script `post-receive-email` provided in the `contrib/hooks`
246 directory in git distribution, which implements sending commit
253 This hook is invoked by `git-receive-pack` on the remote repository,
254 which happens when a `git push` is done on a local repository.
255 It executes on the remote repository once after all the refs have
258 It takes a variable number of parameters, each of which is the
259 name of ref that was actually updated.
261 This hook is meant primarily for notification, and cannot affect
262 the outcome of `git-receive-pack`.
264 The 'post-update' hook can tell what are the heads that were pushed,
265 but it does not know what their original and updated values are,
266 so it is a poor place to do log old..new. The
267 <<post-receive,'post-receive'>> hook does get both original and
268 updated values of the refs. You might consider it instead if you need
271 When enabled, the default 'post-update' hook runs
272 `git-update-server-info` to keep the information used by dumb
273 transports (e.g., HTTP) up-to-date. If you are publishing
274 a git repository that is accessible via HTTP, you should
275 probably enable this hook.
277 Both standard output and standard error output are forwarded to
278 `git-send-pack` on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages
284 This hook is invoked by `git-gc --auto`. It takes no parameter, and
285 exiting with non-zero status from this script causes the `git-gc --auto`