3 # Copyright (c) 2007 Andy Parkins
5 # An example hook script to mail out commit update information.
7 # NOTE: This script is no longer under active development. There
8 # is another script, git-multimail, which is more capable and
9 # configurable and is largely backwards-compatible with this script;
10 # please see "contrib/hooks/multimail/". For instructions on how to
11 # migrate from post-receive-email to git-multimail, please see
12 # "README.migrate-from-post-receive-email" in that directory.
14 # This hook sends emails listing new revisions to the repository
15 # introduced by the change being reported. The rule is that (for
16 # branch updates) each commit will appear on one email and one email
19 # This hook is stored in the contrib/hooks directory. Your distribution
20 # will have put this somewhere standard. You should make this script
21 # executable then link to it in the repository you would like to use it in.
22 # For example, on debian the hook is stored in
23 # /usr/share/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email:
25 # cd /path/to/your/repository.git
26 # ln -sf /usr/share/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email hooks/post-receive
28 # This hook script assumes it is enabled on the central repository of a
29 # project, with all users pushing only to it and not between each other. It
30 # will still work if you don't operate in that style, but it would become
31 # possible for the email to be from someone other than the person doing the
34 # To help with debugging and use on pre-v1.5.1 git servers, this script will
35 # also obey the interface of hooks/update, taking its arguments on the
36 # command line. Unfortunately, hooks/update is called once for each ref.
37 # To avoid firing one email per ref, this script just prints its output to
38 # the screen when used in this mode. The output can then be redirected if
44 # This is the list that all pushes will go to; leave it blank to not send
45 # emails for every ref update.
47 # This is the list that all pushes of annotated tags will go to. Leave it
48 # blank to default to the mailinglist field. The announce emails lists
49 # the short log summary of the changes since the last annotated tag.
50 # hooks.envelopesender
51 # If set then the -f option is passed to sendmail to allow the envelope
52 # sender address to be set
54 # All emails have their subjects prefixed with this prefix, or "[SCM]"
55 # if emailprefix is unset, to aid filtering
57 # The shell command used to format each revision in the email, with
58 # "%s" replaced with the commit id. Defaults to "git rev-list -1
59 # --pretty %s", displaying the commit id, author, date and log
60 # message. To list full patches separated by a blank line, you
61 # could set this to "git show -C %s; echo".
62 # To list a gitweb/cgit URL *and* a full patch for each change set, use this:
63 # "t=%s; printf 'http://.../?id=%%s' \$t; echo;echo; git show -C \$t; echo"
64 # Be careful if "..." contains things that will be expanded by shell "eval"
67 # The maximum number of lines that should be included in the generated
68 # email body. If not specified, there is no limit.
69 # Lines beyond the limit are suppressed and counted, and a final
70 # line is added indicating the number of suppressed lines.
72 # Alternate options for the git diff-tree invocation that shows changes.
73 # Default is "--stat --summary --find-copies-harder". Add -p to those
74 # options to include a unified diff of changes in addition to the usual
79 # All emails include the headers "X-Git-Refname", "X-Git-Oldrev",
80 # "X-Git-Newrev", and "X-Git-Reftype" to enable fine tuned filtering and
81 # give information for debugging.
84 # ---------------------------- Functions
87 # Function to prepare for email generation. This decides what type
88 # of update this is and whether an email should even be generated.
93 oldrev=$(git rev-parse $1)
94 newrev=$(git rev-parse $2)
100 # 2345->0000 (delete)
101 if expr "$oldrev" : '0*$' >/dev/null
105 if expr "$newrev" : '0*$' >/dev/null
113 # --- Get the revision types
114 newrev_type=$(git cat-file -t $newrev 2> /dev/null)
115 oldrev_type=$(git cat-file -t "$oldrev" 2> /dev/null)
116 case "$change_type" in
119 rev_type="$newrev_type"
123 rev_type="$oldrev_type"
127 # The revision type tells us what type the commit is, combined with
128 # the location of the ref we can decide between
133 case "$refname","$rev_type" in
137 short_refname=${refname##refs/tags/}
141 refname_type="annotated tag"
142 short_refname=${refname##refs/tags/}
144 if [ -n "$announcerecipients" ]; then
145 recipients="$announcerecipients"
150 refname_type="branch"
151 short_refname=${refname##refs/heads/}
153 refs/remotes/*,commit)
155 refname_type="tracking branch"
156 short_refname=${refname##refs/remotes/}
157 echo >&2 "*** Push-update of tracking branch, $refname"
158 echo >&2 "*** - no email generated."
162 # Anything else (is there anything else?)
163 echo >&2 "*** Unknown type of update to $refname ($rev_type)"
164 echo >&2 "*** - no email generated"
169 # Check if we've got anyone to send to
170 if [ -z "$recipients" ]; then
171 case "$refname_type" in
173 config_name="hooks.announcelist"
176 config_name="hooks.mailinglist"
179 echo >&2 "*** $config_name is not set so no email will be sent"
180 echo >&2 "*** for $refname update $oldrev->$newrev"
188 # Top level email generation function. This calls the appropriate
189 # body-generation routine after outputting the common header.
191 # Note this function doesn't actually generate any email output, that is
192 # taken care of by the functions it calls:
193 # - generate_email_header
194 # - generate_create_XXXX_email
195 # - generate_update_XXXX_email
196 # - generate_delete_XXXX_email
197 # - generate_email_footer
199 # Note also that this function cannot 'exit' from the script; when this
200 # function is running (in hook script mode), the send_mail() function
201 # is already executing in another process, connected via a pipe, and
202 # if this function exits without, whatever has been generated to that
203 # point will be sent as an email... even if nothing has been generated.
208 # The email subject will contain the best description of the ref
209 # that we can build from the parameters
210 describe=$(git describe $rev 2>/dev/null)
211 if [ -z "$describe" ]; then
215 generate_email_header
217 # Call the correct body generation function
219 case "$refname_type" in
220 "tracking branch"|branch)
228 if [ -z "$maxlines" ]; then
229 generate_${change_type}_${fn_name}_email
231 generate_${change_type}_${fn_name}_email | limit_lines $maxlines
234 generate_email_footer
237 generate_email_header()
239 # --- Email (all stdout will be the email)
243 Subject: ${emailprefix}$projectdesc $refname_type $short_refname ${change_type}d. $describe
245 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
246 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
247 X-Git-Refname: $refname
248 X-Git-Reftype: $refname_type
249 X-Git-Oldrev: $oldrev
250 X-Git-Newrev: $newrev
251 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
253 This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. It was
254 generated because a ref change was pushed to the repository containing
255 the project "$projectdesc".
257 The $refname_type, $short_refname has been ${change_type}d
261 generate_email_footer()
273 # --------------- Branches
276 # Called for the creation of a branch
278 generate_create_branch_email()
280 # This is a new branch and so oldrev is not valid
281 echo " at $newrev ($newrev_type)"
290 # Called for the change of a pre-existing branch
292 generate_update_branch_email()
295 # 1 --- 2 --- O --- X --- 3 --- 4 --- N
297 # O is $oldrev for $refname
298 # N is $newrev for $refname
299 # X is a revision pointed to by some other ref, for which we may
300 # assume that an email has already been generated.
301 # In this case we want to issue an email containing only revisions
302 # 3, 4, and N. Given (almost) by
304 # git rev-list N ^O --not --all
306 # The reason for the "almost", is that the "--not --all" will take
307 # precedence over the "N", and effectively will translate to
309 # git rev-list N ^O ^X ^N
311 # So, we need to build up the list more carefully. git rev-parse
312 # will generate a list of revs that may be fed into git rev-list.
313 # We can get it to make the "--not --all" part and then filter out
316 # git rev-parse --not --all | grep -v N
318 # Then, using the --stdin switch to git rev-list we have effectively
321 # git rev-list N ^O ^X
323 # This leaves a problem when someone else updates the repository
324 # while this script is running. Their new value of the ref we're
325 # working on would be included in the "--not --all" output; and as
326 # our $newrev would be an ancestor of that commit, it would exclude
327 # all of our commits. What we really want is to exclude the current
328 # value of $refname from the --not list, rather than N itself. So:
330 # git rev-parse --not --all | grep -v $(git rev-parse $refname)
332 # Get's us to something pretty safe (apart from the small time
333 # between refname being read, and git rev-parse running - for that,
337 # Next problem, consider this:
338 # * --- B --- * --- O ($oldrev)
340 # * --- X --- * --- N ($newrev)
342 # That is to say, there is no guarantee that oldrev is a strict
343 # subset of newrev (it would have required a --force, but that's
344 # allowed). So, we can't simply say rev-list $oldrev..$newrev.
345 # Instead we find the common base of the two revs and list from
348 # As above, we need to take into account the presence of X; if
349 # another branch is already in the repository and points at some of
350 # the revisions that we are about to output - we don't want them.
351 # The solution is as before: git rev-parse output filtered.
353 # Finally, tags: 1 --- 2 --- O --- T --- 3 --- 4 --- N
355 # Tags pushed into the repository generate nice shortlog emails that
356 # summarise the commits between them and the previous tag. However,
357 # those emails don't include the full commit messages that we output
358 # for a branch update. Therefore we still want to output revisions
359 # that have been output on a tag email.
361 # Luckily, git rev-parse includes just the tool. Instead of using
362 # "--all" we use "--branches"; this has the added benefit that
363 # "remotes/" will be ignored as well.
365 # List all of the revisions that were removed by this update, in a
366 # fast-forward update, this list will be empty, because rev-list O
367 # ^N is empty. For a non-fast-forward, O ^N is the list of removed
371 for rev in $(git rev-list $newrev..$oldrev)
373 revtype=$(git cat-file -t "$rev")
374 echo " discards $rev ($revtype)"
376 if [ -z "$rev" ]; then
380 # List all the revisions from baserev to newrev in a kind of
381 # "table-of-contents"; note this list can include revisions that
382 # have already had notification emails and is present to show the
383 # full detail of the change from rolling back the old revision to
384 # the base revision and then forward to the new revision
385 for rev in $(git rev-list $oldrev..$newrev)
387 revtype=$(git cat-file -t "$rev")
388 echo " via $rev ($revtype)"
391 if [ "$fast_forward" ]; then
392 echo " from $oldrev ($oldrev_type)"
394 # 1. Existing revisions were removed. In this case newrev
395 # is a subset of oldrev - this is the reverse of a
396 # fast-forward, a rewind
397 # 2. New revisions were added on top of an old revision,
398 # this is a rewind and addition.
400 # (1) certainly happened, (2) possibly. When (2) hasn't
401 # happened, we set a flag to indicate that no log printout
406 # Find the common ancestor of the old and new revisions and
407 # compare it with newrev
408 baserev=$(git merge-base $oldrev $newrev)
410 if [ "$baserev" = "$newrev" ]; then
411 echo "This update discarded existing revisions and left the branch pointing at"
412 echo "a previous point in the repository history."
414 echo " * -- * -- N ($newrev)"
416 echo " O -- O -- O ($oldrev)"
418 echo "The removed revisions are not necessarily gone - if another reference"
419 echo "still refers to them they will stay in the repository."
422 echo "This update added new revisions after undoing existing revisions. That is"
423 echo "to say, the old revision is not a strict subset of the new revision. This"
424 echo "situation occurs when you --force push a change and generate a repository"
425 echo "containing something like this:"
427 echo " * -- * -- B -- O -- O -- O ($oldrev)"
429 echo " N -- N -- N ($newrev)"
431 echo "When this happens we assume that you've already had alert emails for all"
432 echo "of the O revisions, and so we here report only the revisions in the N"
433 echo "branch from the common base, B."
438 if [ -z "$rewind_only" ]; then
439 echo "Those revisions listed above that are new to this repository have"
440 echo "not appeared on any other notification email; so we list those"
441 echo "revisions in full, below."
447 # XXX: Need a way of detecting whether git rev-list actually
448 # outputted anything, so that we can issue a "no new
449 # revisions added by this update" message
453 echo "No new revisions were added by this update."
456 # The diffstat is shown from the old revision to the new revision.
457 # This is to show the truth of what happened in this change.
458 # There's no point showing the stat from the base to the new
459 # revision because the base is effectively a random revision at this
460 # point - the user will be interested in what this revision changed
461 # - including the undoing of previous revisions in the case of
462 # non-fast-forward updates.
464 echo "Summary of changes:"
465 git diff-tree $diffopts $oldrev..$newrev
469 # Called for the deletion of a branch
471 generate_delete_branch_email()
476 git diff-tree -s --always --encoding=UTF-8 --pretty=oneline $oldrev
480 # --------------- Annotated tags
483 # Called for the creation of an annotated tag
485 generate_create_atag_email()
487 echo " at $newrev ($newrev_type)"
493 # Called for the update of an annotated tag (this is probably a rare event
494 # and may not even be allowed)
496 generate_update_atag_email()
498 echo " to $newrev ($newrev_type)"
499 echo " from $oldrev (which is now obsolete)"
505 # Called when an annotated tag is created or changed
507 generate_atag_email()
509 # Use git for-each-ref to pull out the individual fields from the
511 eval $(git for-each-ref --shell --format='
512 tagobject=%(*objectname)
513 tagtype=%(*objecttype)
515 tagged=%(taggerdate)' $refname
518 echo " tagging $tagobject ($tagtype)"
522 # If the tagged object is a commit, then we assume this is a
523 # release, and so we calculate which tag this tag is
525 prevtag=$(git describe --abbrev=0 $newrev^ 2>/dev/null)
527 if [ -n "$prevtag" ]; then
528 echo " replaces $prevtag"
532 echo " length $(git cat-file -s $tagobject) bytes"
535 echo " tagged by $tagger"
541 # Show the content of the tag message; this might contain a change
542 # log or release notes so is worth displaying.
543 git cat-file tag $newrev | sed -e '1,/^$/d'
548 # Only commit tags make sense to have rev-list operations
550 if [ -n "$prevtag" ]; then
551 # Show changes since the previous release
552 git shortlog "$prevtag..$newrev"
554 # No previous tag, show all the changes since time
560 # XXX: Is there anything useful we can do for non-commit
569 # Called for the deletion of an annotated tag
571 generate_delete_atag_email()
576 git diff-tree -s --always --encoding=UTF-8 --pretty=oneline $oldrev
580 # --------------- General references
583 # Called when any other type of reference is created (most likely a
586 generate_create_general_email()
588 echo " at $newrev ($newrev_type)"
590 generate_general_email
594 # Called when any other type of reference is updated (most likely a
597 generate_update_general_email()
599 echo " to $newrev ($newrev_type)"
602 generate_general_email
606 # Called for creation or update of any other type of reference
608 generate_general_email()
610 # Unannotated tags are more about marking a point than releasing a
611 # version; therefore we don't do the shortlog summary that we do for
612 # annotated tags above - we simply show that the point has been
613 # marked, and print the log message for the marked point for
616 # Note this section also catches any other reference type (although
617 # there aren't any) and deals with them in the same way.
620 if [ "$newrev_type" = "commit" ]; then
622 git diff-tree -s --always --encoding=UTF-8 --pretty=medium $newrev
625 # What can we do here? The tag marks an object that is not
626 # a commit, so there is no log for us to display. It's
627 # probably not wise to output git cat-file as it could be a
628 # binary blob. We'll just say how big it is
629 echo "$newrev is a $newrev_type, and is $(git cat-file -s $newrev) bytes long."
634 # Called for the deletion of any other type of reference
636 generate_delete_general_email()
641 git diff-tree -s --always --encoding=UTF-8 --pretty=oneline $oldrev
646 # --------------- Miscellaneous utilities
649 # Show new revisions as the user would like to see them in the email.
653 # This shows all log entries that are not already covered by
654 # another ref - i.e. commits that are now accessible from this
655 # ref that were previously not accessible
656 # (see generate_update_branch_email for the explanation of this
659 # Revision range passed to rev-list differs for new vs. updated
661 if [ "$change_type" = create ]
663 # Show all revisions exclusive to this (new) branch.
666 # Branch update; show revisions not part of $oldrev.
667 revspec=$oldrev..$newrev
670 other_branches=$(git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' refs/heads/ |
672 git rev-parse --not $other_branches |
673 if [ -z "$custom_showrev" ]
675 git rev-list --pretty --stdin $revspec
677 git rev-list --stdin $revspec |
680 eval $(printf "$custom_showrev" $onerev)
690 while IFS="" read -r line; do
692 if [ $lines -gt $1 ]; then
693 skipped=$((skipped + 1))
695 printf "%s\n" "$line"
698 if [ $skipped -ne 0 ]; then
699 echo "... $skipped lines suppressed ..."
706 if [ -n "$envelopesender" ]; then
707 /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f "$envelopesender"
709 /usr/sbin/sendmail -t
713 # ---------------------------- main()
716 LOGBEGIN="- Log -----------------------------------------------------------------"
717 LOGEND="-----------------------------------------------------------------------"
720 # Set GIT_DIR either from the working directory, or from the environment
722 GIT_DIR=$(git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null)
723 if [ -z "$GIT_DIR" ]; then
724 echo >&2 "fatal: post-receive: GIT_DIR not set"
728 projectdesc=$(sed -ne '1p' "$GIT_DIR/description" 2>/dev/null)
729 # Check if the description is unchanged from it's default, and shorten it to
730 # a more manageable length if it is
731 if expr "$projectdesc" : "Unnamed repository.*$" >/dev/null
733 projectdesc="UNNAMED PROJECT"
736 recipients=$(git config hooks.mailinglist)
737 announcerecipients=$(git config hooks.announcelist)
738 envelopesender=$(git config hooks.envelopesender)
739 emailprefix=$(git config hooks.emailprefix || echo '[SCM] ')
740 custom_showrev=$(git config hooks.showrev)
741 maxlines=$(git config hooks.emailmaxlines)
742 diffopts=$(git config hooks.diffopts)
743 : ${diffopts:="--stat --summary --find-copies-harder"}
746 # Allow dual mode: run from the command line just like the update hook, or
747 # if no arguments are given then run as a hook script
748 if [ -n "$1" -a -n "$2" -a -n "$3" ]; then
749 # Output to the terminal in command line mode - if someone wanted to
750 # resend an email; they could redirect the output to sendmail
752 prep_for_email $2 $3 $1 && PAGER= generate_email
754 while read oldrev newrev refname
756 prep_for_email $oldrev $newrev $refname || continue
757 generate_email $maxlines | send_mail