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Gabriel
Gabriel

Reputation: 9442

How to check only new commits on update git hook on server?

So far I use the update hook on the git server to check the message in commits.

When a new branch is added I get the arguments refs/heads/mybranch 00000...0000 <headShaOfBranch>.

How can I check only the commits which are not yet in the repository? Whats the procedure to do this? (is it the wrong hook to do this?)

If I would take the range 0000 till <headShaOfBranch> I would check every commit starting from <headShaOfBranch> which is not good.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 128

Answers (1)

Gabriel
Gabriel

Reputation: 9442

Use git rev-list:

git rev-list "refs/heads/mybranch" --not --exclude "refs/heads/mybranch" --all

will output all commits starting from refs/heads/mybranch which are not also reached by the set of all references --all excluding refs/heads/mybranch.

Note: The --exclude is before -all. See the docs!

Upvotes: 1

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