[PATCH] Added hook in git-receive-pack

Just before updating a ref,

    $GIT_DIR/hooks/update refname old-sha1 new-sha1

is called if executable.  The hook can decline the ref to be
updated by exiting with a non-zero status, or allow it to be
updated by exiting with a zero status.  The mechanism also
allows e.g sending of a mail with pushed commits on the remote
repository.

Documentation update with an example hook is included.

jc: The credits of the basic idea and initial implementation go
to Josef, but I ended up rewriting major parts of his patch, so
bugs are all mine.  Also I changed the semantics for the hook
from his original version (which were post-update hook) so that
the hook can optionally decline to update the ref, and also can
be used to implement the overall cleanups.  The latter was
primarily to implement a suggestion from Linus that calling
update-server-info should be made optional.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/run-command.h b/run-command.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4f646139e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/run-command.h
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#ifndef RUN_COMMAND_H
+#define RUN_COMMAND_H
+
+#define MAX_RUN_COMMAND_ARGS 256
+enum {
+	ERR_RUN_COMMAND_FORK = 10000,
+	ERR_RUN_COMMAND_EXEC,
+	ERR_RUN_COMMAND_WAITPID,
+	ERR_RUN_COMMAND_WAITPID_WRONG_PID,
+	ERR_RUN_COMMAND_WAITPID_SIGNAL,
+	ERR_RUN_COMMAND_WAITPID_NOEXIT,
+};
+
+int run_command(const char *cmd, ...);
+
+#endif