Bash command within a git post-update hook is not found

Question

I have the following code in a git post-update hook that cd's into my working directory and pulls from the bare git repo where this git hook lives:

cd $HOME/www/firefly

unset GIT_DIR

git pull hub master

combine

npm rebuild

exec git update-server-info

The problem is that when it runs combine, I get:

hooks/post-update: line 14: combine: command not found

The weird thing is that if I manually cd into my working directory and run combine it successfully executes the file. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Combine isn't a shell command. You likely need the full path or ./combine if it's in the same directory.

The reason for the error is your path is different when running the script.