Send arguments from git push

Question

We're using a git post-receive hook to auto-minify our JS and sync our local and remote dev databases.

This is generally desirable, but occasionally not.

Is there anyway to pass an argument to the post-receive hook from git push so this can be disabled when required?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Git version 2.10 (released Sep 2, 2016) added --push-option to git push:

-o
--push-option

Transmit the given string to the server, which passes them to the pre-receive as well as the post-receive hook. The given string must not contain a NUL or LF character.

Answer 2

If you keep the post-receive hook, you could decide to run the script based on the ref name of each file.

This hook [...] takes no arguments, but for each ref to be updated it receives on standard input a line of the format:

<old-value> SP <new-value> SP <ref-name> LF

where:

• <old-value> is the old object name stored in the ref,
• <new-value> is the new object name to be stored in the ref and
• <ref-name> is the full name of the ref.

So you could check the branch name from the ref-name, and for some branches, decide not to run your script.

Answer 3

I would do this in another way and keep one branch that has the receive-deploy action and another branch which does not.