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Reputation: 26441

How to install new git hook to all existing (cloned) repositories?

I have ~50 repositories on my machine. I would like to install newly created git hook to all of them.

I've already created .git-templates folder and put hooks there, then git config --global init.templatedir ~/.git-templates - it works for new repositories but what about existing ones?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 723

Answers (2)

jthill
jthill

Reputation: 60255

Just do it. Find all the repositories and copy the hooks. Here's a sample (this might find more than you think, it's why the actual copy gets echoed not executed, don't just c&p the echoed commands if you might have ''s in your pathnames):

find ~ -name HEAD -execdir test -f config -a -d objects -a -d refs \; \
        -execdir mkdir -p hooks \; \
        -printf "cp -a ~/.git-templates/hooks '%h'/hooks\\n"

Upvotes: 0

Chris Maes
Chris Maes

Reputation: 37722

I you use a recent version of git (>= 2.9), then I would recommend using the core.hooksPath variable.

Then you can create a separate directory where you put all your hooks, eg /var/myhooks, then

git config --global core.hooksPath /var/myhooks

would make this directory the default hooks directory for all your repositories at once. As a side effect, all hooks under .git/hooks in each repository will be ignored. But inside a specific repository, you could then override this again with its own hooks directory:

git config core.hooksPath .git/hooks

Upvotes: 2

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