From 3aadad1b32db3555bc19dac0892d41628a8e736d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:35:48 -0800 Subject: Documentation: stdout of update-hook is connected to /dev/null Mention that update-hook does not emit its stdout to the sender. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/hooks.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/hooks.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/hooks.txt b/Documentation/hooks.txt index 7ee3571bc0..4ad1920ec1 100644 --- a/Documentation/hooks.txt +++ b/Documentation/hooks.txt @@ -111,6 +111,10 @@ Another use suggested on the mailing list is to use this hook to implement access control which is finer grained than the one based on filesystem group. +The standard output of this hook is sent to /dev/null; if you +want to report something to the git-send-pack on the other end, +you can redirect your output to your stderr. + post-update ----------- @@ -125,3 +129,7 @@ the outcome of `git-receive-pack`. The default post-update hook, when enabled, runs `git-update-server-info` to keep the information used by dumb transport up-to-date. + +The standard output of this hook is sent to /dev/null; if you +want to report something to the git-send-pack on the other end, +you can redirect your output to your stderr. -- cgit v1.2.3