3 # Copyright (c) 2007 Andy Parkins
5 # An example hook script to mail out commit update information. This hook
6 # sends emails listing new revisions to the repository introduced by the
7 # change being reported. The rule is that (for branch updates) each commit
8 # will appear on one email and one email only.
10 # This hook is stored in the contrib/hooks directory. Your distribution
11 # will have put this somewhere standard. You should make this script
12 # executable then link to it in the repository you would like to use it in.
13 # For example, on debian the hook is stored in
14 # /usr/share/doc/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email:
16 # chmod a+x post-receive-email
17 # cd /path/to/your/repository.git
18 # ln -sf /usr/share/doc/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email hooks/post-receive
20 # This hook script assumes it is enabled on the central repository of a
21 # project, with all users pushing only to it and not between each other. It
22 # will still work if you don't operate in that style, but it would become
23 # possible for the email to be from someone other than the person doing the
29 # This is the list that all pushes will go to; leave it blank to not send
30 # emails for every ref update.
32 # This is the list that all pushes of annotated tags will go to. Leave it
33 # blank to default to the mailinglist field. The announce emails lists
34 # the short log summary of the changes since the last annotated tag.
35 # hooks.envelopesender
36 # If set then the -f option is passed to sendmail to allow the envelope
37 # sender address to be set
41 # All emails have their subjects prefixed with "[SCM]" to aid filtering.
42 # All emails include the headers "X-Git-Refname", "X-Git-Oldrev",
43 # "X-Git-Newrev", and "X-Git-Reftype" to enable fine tuned filtering and
44 # give information for debugging.
47 # ---------------------------- Functions
50 # Top level email generation function. This decides what type of update
51 # this is and calls the appropriate body-generation routine after outputting
54 # Note this function doesn't actually generate any email output, that is
55 # taken care of by the functions it calls:
56 # - generate_email_header
57 # - generate_create_XXXX_email
58 # - generate_update_XXXX_email
59 # - generate_delete_XXXX_email
60 # - generate_email_footer
65 oldrev=$(git rev-parse $1)
66 newrev=$(git rev-parse $2)
73 if expr "$oldrev" : '0*$' >/dev/null
77 if expr "$newrev" : '0*$' >/dev/null
85 # --- Get the revision types
86 newrev_type=$(git cat-file -t $newrev 2> /dev/null)
87 oldrev_type=$(git cat-file -t "$oldrev" 2> /dev/null)
88 case "$change_type" in
91 rev_type="$newrev_type"
95 rev_type="$oldrev_type"
99 # The revision type tells us what type the commit is, combined with
100 # the location of the ref we can decide between
105 case "$refname","$rev_type" in
109 short_refname=${refname##refs/tags/}
113 refname_type="annotated tag"
114 short_refname=${refname##refs/tags/}
116 if [ -n "$announcerecipients" ]; then
117 recipients="$announcerecipients"
122 refname_type="branch"
123 short_refname=${refname##refs/heads/}
125 refs/remotes/*,commit)
127 refname_type="tracking branch"
128 short_refname=${refname##refs/remotes/}
129 echo >&2 "*** Push-update of tracking branch, $refname"
130 echo >&2 "*** - no email generated."
134 # Anything else (is there anything else?)
135 echo >&2 "*** Unknown type of update to $refname ($rev_type)"
136 echo >&2 "*** - no email generated"
141 # Check if we've got anyone to send to
142 if [ -z "$recipients" ]; then
143 case "$refname_type" in
145 config_name="hooks.announcelist"
148 config_name="hooks.mailinglist"
151 echo >&2 "*** $config_name is not set so no email will be sent"
152 echo >&2 "*** for $refname update $oldrev->$newrev"
157 # The committer will be obtained from the latest existing rev; so
158 # for a deletion it will be the oldrev, for the others, then newrev
159 committer=$(git show --pretty=full -s $rev | sed -ne "s/^Commit: //p" |
160 sed -ne 's/\(.*\) </"\1" </p')
161 # The email subject will contain the best description of the ref
162 # that we can build from the parameters
163 describe=$(git describe $rev 2>/dev/null)
164 if [ -z "$describe" ]; then
168 generate_email_header
170 # Call the correct body generation function
172 case "$refname_type" in
173 "tracking branch"|branch)
180 generate_${change_type}_${fn_name}_email
182 generate_email_footer
185 generate_email_header()
187 # --- Email (all stdout will be the email)
191 Subject: ${EMAILPREFIX}$projectdesc $refname_type, $short_refname, ${change_type}d. $describe
192 X-Git-Refname: $refname
193 X-Git-Reftype: $refname_type
194 X-Git-Oldrev: $oldrev
195 X-Git-Newrev: $newrev
197 This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. It was
198 generated because a ref change was pushed to the repository containing
199 the project "$projectdesc".
201 The $refname_type, $short_refname has been ${change_type}d
205 generate_email_footer()
216 # --------------- Branches
219 # Called for the creation of a branch
221 generate_create_branch_email()
223 # This is a new branch and so oldrev is not valid
224 echo " at $newrev ($newrev_type)"
228 # This shows all log entries that are not already covered by
229 # another ref - i.e. commits that are now accessible from this
230 # ref that were previously not accessible
231 # (see generate_update_branch_email for the explanation of this
233 git rev-parse --not --branches | grep -v $(git rev-parse $refname) |
234 git rev-list --pretty --stdin $newrev
239 # Called for the change of a pre-existing branch
241 generate_update_branch_email()
244 # 1 --- 2 --- O --- X --- 3 --- 4 --- N
246 # O is $oldrev for $refname
247 # N is $newrev for $refname
248 # X is a revision pointed to by some other ref, for which we may
249 # assume that an email has already been generated.
250 # In this case we want to issue an email containing only revisions
251 # 3, 4, and N. Given (almost) by
253 # git-rev-list N ^O --not --all
255 # The reason for the "almost", is that the "--not --all" will take
256 # precedence over the "N", and effectively will translate to
258 # git-rev-list N ^O ^X ^N
260 # So, we need to build up the list more carefully. git-rev-parse
261 # will generate a list of revs that may be fed into git-rev-list.
262 # We can get it to make the "--not --all" part and then filter out
265 # git-rev-parse --not --all | grep -v N
267 # Then, using the --stdin switch to git-rev-list we have effectively
270 # git-rev-list N ^O ^X
272 # This leaves a problem when someone else updates the repository
273 # while this script is running. Their new value of the ref we're
274 # working on would be included in the "--not --all" output; and as
275 # our $newrev would be an ancestor of that commit, it would exclude
276 # all of our commits. What we really want is to exclude the current
277 # value of $refname from the --not list, rather than N itself. So:
279 # git-rev-parse --not --all | grep -v $(git-rev-parse $refname)
281 # Get's us to something pretty safe (apart from the small time
282 # between refname being read, and git-rev-parse running - for that,
286 # Next problem, consider this:
287 # * --- B --- * --- O ($oldrev)
289 # * --- X --- * --- N ($newrev)
291 # That is to say, there is no guarantee that oldrev is a strict
292 # subset of newrev (it would have required a --force, but that's
293 # allowed). So, we can't simply say rev-list $oldrev..$newrev.
294 # Instead we find the common base of the two revs and list from
297 # As above, we need to take into account the presence of X; if
298 # another branch is already in the repository and points at some of
299 # the revisions that we are about to output - we don't want them.
300 # The solution is as before: git-rev-parse output filtered.
302 # Finally, tags: 1 --- 2 --- O --- T --- 3 --- 4 --- N
304 # Tags pushed into the repository generate nice shortlog emails that
305 # summarise the commits between them and the previous tag. However,
306 # those emails don't include the full commit messages that we output
307 # for a branch update. Therefore we still want to output revisions
308 # that have been output on a tag email.
310 # Luckily, git-rev-parse includes just the tool. Instead of using
311 # "--all" we use "--branches"; this has the added benefit that
312 # "remotes/" will be ignored as well.
314 # List all of the revisions that were removed by this update, in a
315 # fast forward update, this list will be empty, because rev-list O
316 # ^N is empty. For a non fast forward, O ^N is the list of removed
320 for rev in $(git rev-list $newrev..$oldrev)
322 revtype=$(git cat-file -t "$rev")
323 echo " discards $rev ($revtype)"
325 if [ -z "$rev" ]; then
329 # List all the revisions from baserev to newrev in a kind of
330 # "table-of-contents"; note this list can include revisions that
331 # have already had notification emails and is present to show the
332 # full detail of the change from rolling back the old revision to
333 # the base revision and then forward to the new revision
334 for rev in $(git rev-list $oldrev..$newrev)
336 revtype=$(git cat-file -t "$rev")
337 echo " via $rev ($revtype)"
340 if [ "$fast_forward" ]; then
341 echo " from $oldrev ($oldrev_type)"
343 # 1. Existing revisions were removed. In this case newrev
344 # is a subset of oldrev - this is the reverse of a
345 # fast-forward, a rewind
346 # 2. New revisions were added on top of an old revision,
347 # this is a rewind and addition.
349 # (1) certainly happened, (2) possibly. When (2) hasn't
350 # happened, we set a flag to indicate that no log printout
355 # Find the common ancestor of the old and new revisions and
356 # compare it with newrev
357 baserev=$(git merge-base $oldrev $newrev)
359 if [ "$baserev" = "$newrev" ]; then
360 echo "This update discarded existing revisions and left the branch pointing at"
361 echo "a previous point in the repository history."
363 echo " * -- * -- N ($newrev)"
365 echo " O -- O -- O ($oldrev)"
367 echo "The removed revisions are not necessarilly gone - if another reference"
368 echo "still refers to them they will stay in the repository."
371 echo "This update added new revisions after undoing existing revisions. That is"
372 echo "to say, the old revision is not a strict subset of the new revision. This"
373 echo "situation occurs when you --force push a change and generate a repository"
374 echo "containing something like this:"
376 echo " * -- * -- B -- O -- O -- O ($oldrev)"
378 echo " N -- N -- N ($newrev)"
380 echo "When this happens we assume that you've already had alert emails for all"
381 echo "of the O revisions, and so we here report only the revisions in the N"
382 echo "branch from the common base, B."
387 if [ -z "$rewind_only" ]; then
388 echo "Those revisions listed above that are new to this repository have"
389 echo "not appeared on any other notification email; so we list those"
390 echo "revisions in full, below."
394 git rev-parse --not --branches | grep -v $(git rev-parse $refname) |
395 git rev-list --pretty --stdin $oldrev..$newrev
397 # XXX: Need a way of detecting whether git rev-list actually
398 # outputted anything, so that we can issue a "no new
399 # revisions added by this update" message
403 echo "No new revisions were added by this update."
406 # The diffstat is shown from the old revision to the new revision.
407 # This is to show the truth of what happened in this change.
408 # There's no point showing the stat from the base to the new
409 # revision because the base is effectively a random revision at this
410 # point - the user will be interested in what this revision changed
411 # - including the undoing of previous revisions in the case of
412 # non-fast forward updates.
414 echo "Summary of changes:"
415 git diff-tree --stat --summary --find-copies-harder $oldrev..$newrev
419 # Called for the deletion of a branch
421 generate_delete_branch_email()
426 git show -s --pretty=oneline $oldrev
430 # --------------- Annotated tags
433 # Called for the creation of an annotated tag
435 generate_create_atag_email()
437 echo " at $newrev ($newrev_type)"
443 # Called for the update of an annotated tag (this is probably a rare event
444 # and may not even be allowed)
446 generate_update_atag_email()
448 echo " to $newrev ($newrev_type)"
449 echo " from $oldrev (which is now obsolete)"
455 # Called when an annotated tag is created or changed
457 generate_atag_email()
459 # Use git-for-each-ref to pull out the individual fields from the
461 eval $(git for-each-ref --shell --format='
462 tagobject=%(*objectname)
463 tagtype=%(*objecttype)
465 tagged=%(taggerdate)' $refname
468 echo " tagging $tagobject ($tagtype)"
472 # If the tagged object is a commit, then we assume this is a
473 # release, and so we calculate which tag this tag is
475 prevtag=$(git describe --abbrev=0 $newrev^ 2>/dev/null)
477 if [ -n "$prevtag" ]; then
478 echo " replaces $prevtag"
482 echo " length $(git cat-file -s $tagobject) bytes"
485 echo " tagged by $tagger"
491 # Show the content of the tag message; this might contain a change
492 # log or release notes so is worth displaying.
493 git cat-file tag $newrev | sed -e '1,/^$/d'
498 # Only commit tags make sense to have rev-list operations
500 if [ -n "$prevtag" ]; then
501 # Show changes since the previous release
502 git rev-list --pretty=short "$prevtag..$newrev" | git shortlog
504 # No previous tag, show all the changes since time
506 git rev-list --pretty=short $newrev | git shortlog
510 # XXX: Is there anything useful we can do for non-commit
519 # Called for the deletion of an annotated tag
521 generate_delete_atag_email()
526 git show -s --pretty=oneline $oldrev
530 # --------------- General references
533 # Called when any other type of reference is created (most likely a
536 generate_create_general_email()
538 echo " at $newrev ($newrev_type)"
540 generate_general_email
544 # Called when any other type of reference is updated (most likely a
547 generate_update_general_email()
549 echo " to $newrev ($newrev_type)"
552 generate_general_email
556 # Called for creation or update of any other type of reference
558 generate_general_email()
560 # Unannotated tags are more about marking a point than releasing a
561 # version; therefore we don't do the shortlog summary that we do for
562 # annotated tags above - we simply show that the point has been
563 # marked, and print the log message for the marked point for
566 # Note this section also catches any other reference type (although
567 # there aren't any) and deals with them in the same way.
570 if [ "$newrev_type" = "commit" ]; then
572 git show --no-color --root -s $newrev
575 # What can we do here? The tag marks an object that is not
576 # a commit, so there is no log for us to display. It's
577 # probably not wise to output git-cat-file as it could be a
578 # binary blob. We'll just say how big it is
579 echo "$newrev is a $newrev_type, and is $(git cat-file -s $newrev) bytes long."
584 # Called for the deletion of any other type of reference
586 generate_delete_general_email()
591 git show -s --pretty=oneline $oldrev
597 if [ -n "$envelopesender" ]; then
598 /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f "$envelopesender"
600 /usr/sbin/sendmail -t
604 # ---------------------------- main()
608 LOGBEGIN="- Log -----------------------------------------------------------------"
609 LOGEND="-----------------------------------------------------------------------"
612 # Set GIT_DIR either from the working directory, or from the environment
614 GIT_DIR=$(git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null)
615 if [ -z "$GIT_DIR" ]; then
616 echo >&2 "fatal: post-receive: GIT_DIR not set"
620 projectdesc=$(sed -ne '1p' "$GIT_DIR/description")
621 # Check if the description is unchanged from it's default, and shorten it to
622 # a more manageable length if it is
623 if expr "$projectdesc" : "Unnamed repository.*$" >/dev/null
625 projectdesc="UNNAMED PROJECT"
628 recipients=$(git repo-config hooks.mailinglist)
629 announcerecipients=$(git repo-config hooks.announcelist)
630 envelopesender=$(git-repo-config hooks.envelopesender)
633 # Allow dual mode: run from the command line just like the update hook, or
634 # if no arguments are given then run as a hook script
635 if [ -n "$1" -a -n "$2" -a -n "$3" ]; then
636 # Output to the terminal in command line mode - if someone wanted to
637 # resend an email; they could redirect the output to sendmail
639 PAGER= generate_email $2 $3 $1
641 while read oldrev newrev refname
643 generate_email $oldrev $newrev $refname | send_mail