3 # Copyright (c) 2007 Andy Parkins
5 # An example hook script to mail out commit update information. This hook sends emails
6 # listing new revisions to the repository introduced by the change being reported. The
7 # rule is that (for branch updates) each commit will appear on one email and one email
10 # This hook is stored in the contrib/hooks directory. Your distribution will have put
11 # this somewhere standard. You should make this script executable then link to it in
12 # the repository you would like to use it in. For example, on debian the hook is stored
13 # in /usr/share/doc/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email:
15 # chmod a+x post-receive-email
16 # cd /path/to/your/repository.git
17 # ln -sf /usr/share/doc/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email hooks/post-receive
19 # This hook script assumes it is enabled on the central repository of a project, with
20 # all users pushing only to it and not between each other. It will still work if you
21 # don't operate in that style, but it would become possible for the email to be from
22 # someone other than the person doing the push.
27 # This is the list that all pushes will go to; leave it blank to not send
28 # emails for every ref update.
30 # This is the list that all pushes of annotated tags will go to. Leave it
31 # blank to default to the mailinglist field. The announce emails lists the
32 # short log summary of the changes since the last annotated tag.
34 # If set then the -f option is passed to sendmail to allow the envelope sender
39 # All emails have their subjects prefixed with "[SCM]" to aid filtering.
40 # All emails include the headers "X-Git-Refname", "X-Git-Oldrev",
41 # "X-Git-Newrev", and "X-Git-Reftype" to enable fine tuned filtering and
42 # give information for debugging.
45 # ---------------------------- Functions
48 # Top level email generation function. This decides what type of update
49 # this is and calls the appropriate body-generation routine after outputting
52 # Note this function doesn't actually generate any email output, that is taken
53 # care of by the functions it calls:
54 # - generate_email_header
55 # - generate_create_XXXX_email
56 # - generate_update_XXXX_email
57 # - generate_delete_XXXX_email
58 # - generate_email_footer
63 oldrev=$(git rev-parse $1)
64 newrev=$(git rev-parse $2)
71 if expr "$oldrev" : '0*$' >/dev/null
75 if expr "$newrev" : '0*$' >/dev/null
83 # --- Get the revision types
84 newrev_type=$(git cat-file -t $newrev 2> /dev/null)
85 oldrev_type=$(git cat-file -t "$oldrev" 2> /dev/null)
86 case "$change_type" in
89 rev_type="$newrev_type"
93 rev_type="$oldrev_type"
97 # The revision type tells us what type the commit is, combined with
98 # the location of the ref we can decide between
103 case "$refname","$rev_type" in
107 short_refname=${refname##refs/tags/}
111 refname_type="annotated tag"
112 short_refname=${refname##refs/tags/}
114 if [ -n "$announcerecipients" ]; then
115 recipients="$announcerecipients"
120 refname_type="branch"
121 short_refname=${refname##refs/heads/}
123 refs/remotes/*,commit)
125 refname_type="tracking branch"
126 short_refname=${refname##refs/remotes/}
127 echo >&2 "*** Push-update of tracking branch, $refname"
128 echo >&2 "*** - no email generated."
132 # Anything else (is there anything else?)
133 echo >&2 "*** Unknown type of update to $refname ($rev_type)"
134 echo >&2 "*** - no email generated"
139 # Check if we've got anyone to send to
140 if [ -z "$recipients" ]; then
141 case "$refname_type" in
143 config_name="hooks.announcelist"
146 config_name="hooks.mailinglist"
149 echo >&2 "*** $config_name is not set so no email will be sent"
150 echo >&2 "*** for $refname update $oldrev->$newrev"
155 # The committer will be obtained from the latest existing rev; so
156 # for a deletion it will be the oldrev, for the others, then newrev
157 committer=$(git show --pretty=full -s $rev | sed -ne "s/^Commit: //p" |
158 sed -ne 's/\(.*\) </"\1" </p')
159 # The email subject will contain the best description of the ref
160 # that we can build from the parameters
161 describe=$(git describe $rev 2>/dev/null)
162 if [ -z "$describe" ]; then
166 generate_email_header
168 # Call the correct body generation function
170 case "$refname_type" in
171 "tracking branch"|branch)
178 generate_${change_type}_${fn_name}_email
180 generate_email_footer
183 generate_email_header()
185 # --- Email (all stdout will be the email)
189 Subject: ${EMAILPREFIX}$projectdesc $refname_type, $short_refname, ${change_type}d. $describe
190 X-Git-Refname: $refname
191 X-Git-Reftype: $refname_type
192 X-Git-Oldrev: $oldrev
193 X-Git-Newrev: $newrev
195 This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. It was
196 generated because a ref change was pushed to the repository containing
197 the project "$projectdesc".
199 The $refname_type, $short_refname has been ${change_type}d
203 generate_email_footer()
214 # --------------- Branches
217 # Called for the creation of a branch
219 generate_create_branch_email()
221 # This is a new branch and so oldrev is not valid
222 echo " at $newrev ($newrev_type)"
226 # This shows all log entries that are not already covered by
227 # another ref - i.e. commits that are now accessible from this
228 # ref that were previously not accessible (see generate_update_branch_email
229 # for the explanation of this command)
230 git rev-parse --not --branches | grep -v $(git rev-parse $refname) |
231 git rev-list --pretty --stdin $newrev
236 # Called for the change of a pre-existing branch
238 generate_update_branch_email()
241 # 1 --- 2 --- O --- X --- 3 --- 4 --- N
243 # O is $oldrev for $refname
244 # N is $newrev for $refname
245 # X is a revision pointed to by some other ref, for which we may
246 # assume that an email has already been generated.
247 # In this case we want to issue an email containing only revisions
248 # 3, 4, and N. Given (almost) by
250 # git-rev-list N ^O --not --all
252 # The reason for the "almost", is that the "--not --all" will take
253 # precedence over the "N", and effectively will translate to
255 # git-rev-list N ^O ^X ^N
257 # So, we need to build up the list more carefully. git-rev-parse will
258 # generate a list of revs that may be fed into git-rev-list. We can get
259 # it to make the "--not --all" part and then filter out the "^N" with:
261 # git-rev-parse --not --all | grep -v N
263 # Then, using the --stdin switch to git-rev-list we have effectively
266 # git-rev-list N ^O ^X
268 # This leaves a problem when someone else updates the repository
269 # while this script is running. Their new value of the ref we're working
270 # on would be included in the "--not --all" output; and as our $newrev
271 # would be an ancestor of that commit, it would exclude all of our
272 # commits. What we really want is to exclude the current value of
273 # $refname from the --not list, rather than N itself. So:
275 # git-rev-parse --not --all | grep -v $(git-rev-parse $refname)
277 # Get's us to something pretty safe (apart from the small time between
278 # refname being read, and git-rev-parse running - for that, I give up)
281 # Next problem, consider this:
282 # * --- B --- * --- O ($oldrev)
284 # * --- X --- * --- N ($newrev)
286 # That is to say, there is no guarantee that oldrev is a strict subset of
287 # newrev (it would have required a --force, but that's allowed). So, we
288 # can't simply say rev-list $oldrev..$newrev. Instead we find the common
289 # base of the two revs and list from there.
291 # As above, we need to take into account the presence of X; if another
292 # branch is already in the repository and points at some of the revisions
293 # that we are about to output - we don't want them. The solution is as
294 # before: git-rev-parse output filtered.
297 # 1 --- 2 --- O --- T --- 3 --- 4 --- N
299 # Tags pushed into the repository generate nice shortlog emails that
300 # summarise the commits between them and the previous tag. However,
301 # those emails don't include the full commit messages that we output
302 # for a branch update. Therefore we still want to output revisions
303 # that have been output on a tag email.
305 # Luckily, git-rev-parse includes just the tool. Instead of using "--all"
306 # we use "--branches"; this has the added benefit that "remotes/" will
307 # be ignored as well.
309 # List all of the revisions that were removed by this update, in a fast forward
310 # update, this list will be empty, because rev-list O ^N is empty. For a non
311 # fast forward, O ^N is the list of removed revisions
314 for rev in $(git rev-list $newrev..$oldrev)
316 revtype=$(git cat-file -t "$rev")
317 echo " discards $rev ($revtype)"
319 if [ -z "$rev" ]; then
323 # List all the revisions from baserev to newrev in a kind of
324 # "table-of-contents"; note this list can include revisions that have
325 # already had notification emails and is present to show the full detail
326 # of the change from rolling back the old revision to the base revision and
327 # then forward to the new revision
328 for rev in $(git rev-list $oldrev..$newrev)
330 revtype=$(git cat-file -t "$rev")
331 echo " via $rev ($revtype)"
334 if [ "$fast_forward" ]; then
335 echo " from $oldrev ($oldrev_type)"
337 # 1. Existing revisions were removed. In this case newrev is a
338 # subset of oldrev - this is the reverse of a fast-forward,
340 # 2. New revisions were added on top of an old revision, this is
341 # a rewind and addition.
343 # (1) certainly happened, (2) possibly. When (2) hasn't happened,
344 # we set a flag to indicate that no log printout is required.
348 # Find the common ancestor of the old and new revisions and compare
350 baserev=$(git merge-base $oldrev $newrev)
352 if [ "$baserev" = "$newrev" ]; then
353 echo "This update discarded existing revisions and left the branch pointing at"
354 echo "a previous point in the repository history."
356 echo " * -- * -- N ($newrev)"
358 echo " O -- O -- O ($oldrev)"
360 echo "The removed revisions are not necessarilly gone - if another reference"
361 echo "still refers to them they will stay in the repository."
364 echo "This update added new revisions after undoing existing revisions. That is"
365 echo "to say, the old revision is not a strict subset of the new revision. This"
366 echo "situation occurs when you --force push a change and generate a repository"
367 echo "containing something like this:"
369 echo " * -- * -- B -- O -- O -- O ($oldrev)"
371 echo " N -- N -- N ($newrev)"
373 echo "When this happens we assume that you've already had alert emails for all"
374 echo "of the O revisions, and so we here report only the revisions in the N"
375 echo "branch from the common base, B."
380 if [ -z "$rewind_only" ]; then
381 echo "Those revisions listed above that are new to this repository have"
382 echo "not appeared on any other notification email; so we list those"
383 echo "revisions in full, below."
387 git rev-parse --not --branches | grep -v $(git rev-parse $refname) |
388 git rev-list --pretty --stdin $oldrev..$newrev
390 # XXX: Need a way of detecting whether git rev-list actually outputted
391 # anything, so that we can issue a "no new revisions added by this
396 echo "No new revisions were added by this update."
399 # The diffstat is shown from the old revision to the new revision. This
400 # is to show the truth of what happened in this change. There's no point
401 # showing the stat from the base to the new revision because the base
402 # is effectively a random revision at this point - the user will be
403 # interested in what this revision changed - including the undoing of
404 # previous revisions in the case of non-fast forward updates.
406 echo "Summary of changes:"
407 git diff-tree --stat --summary --find-copies-harder $oldrev..$newrev
411 # Called for the deletion of a branch
413 generate_delete_branch_email()
418 git show -s --pretty=oneline $oldrev
422 # --------------- Annotated tags
425 # Called for the creation of an annotated tag
427 generate_create_atag_email()
429 echo " at $newrev ($newrev_type)"
435 # Called for the update of an annotated tag (this is probably a rare event
436 # and may not even be allowed)
438 generate_update_atag_email()
440 echo " to $newrev ($newrev_type)"
441 echo " from $oldrev (which is now obsolete)"
447 # Called when an annotated tag is created or changed
449 generate_atag_email()
451 # Use git-for-each-ref to pull out the individual fields from the tag
452 eval $(git for-each-ref --shell --format='
453 tagobject=%(*objectname)
454 tagtype=%(*objecttype)
456 tagged=%(taggerdate)' $refname
459 echo " tagging $tagobject ($tagtype)"
462 # If the tagged object is a commit, then we assume this is a
463 # release, and so we calculate which tag this tag is replacing
464 prevtag=$(git describe --abbrev=0 $newrev^ 2>/dev/null)
466 if [ -n "$prevtag" ]; then
467 echo " replaces $prevtag"
471 echo " length $(git cat-file -s $tagobject) bytes"
474 echo " tagged by $tagger"
480 # Show the content of the tag message; this might contain a change log
481 # or release notes so is worth displaying.
482 git cat-file tag $newrev | sed -e '1,/^$/d'
487 # Only commit tags make sense to have rev-list operations performed
489 if [ -n "$prevtag" ]; then
490 # Show changes since the previous release
491 git rev-list --pretty=short "$prevtag..$newrev" | git shortlog
493 # No previous tag, show all the changes since time began
494 git rev-list --pretty=short $newrev | git shortlog
498 # XXX: Is there anything useful we can do for non-commit objects?
506 # Called for the deletion of an annotated tag
508 generate_delete_atag_email()
513 git show -s --pretty=oneline $oldrev
517 # --------------- General references
520 # Called when any other type of reference is created (most likely a
523 generate_create_general_email()
525 echo " at $newrev ($newrev_type)"
527 generate_general_email
531 # Called when any other type of reference is updated (most likely a
534 generate_update_general_email()
536 echo " to $newrev ($newrev_type)"
539 generate_general_email
543 # Called for creation or update of any other type of reference
545 generate_general_email()
547 # Unannotated tags are more about marking a point than releasing a version;
548 # therefore we don't do the shortlog summary that we do for annotated tags
549 # above - we simply show that the point has been marked, and print the log
550 # message for the marked point for reference purposes
552 # Note this section also catches any other reference type (although there
553 # aren't any) and deals with them in the same way.
556 if [ "$newrev_type" = "commit" ]; then
558 git show --no-color --root -s $newrev
561 # What can we do here? The tag marks an object that is not a commit,
562 # so there is no log for us to display. It's probably not wise to
563 # output git-cat-file as it could be a binary blob. We'll just say how
565 echo "$newrev is a $newrev_type, and is $(git cat-file -s $newrev) bytes long."
570 # Called for the deletion of any other type of reference
572 generate_delete_general_email()
577 git show -s --pretty=oneline $oldrev
583 if [ -n "$envelopesender" ]; then
584 /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f "$envelopesender"
586 /usr/sbin/sendmail -t
590 # ---------------------------- main()
594 LOGBEGIN="- Log -----------------------------------------------------------------"
595 LOGEND="-----------------------------------------------------------------------"
598 # Set GIT_DIR either from the working directory, or from the environment
600 GIT_DIR=$(git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null)
601 if [ -z "$GIT_DIR" ]; then
602 echo >&2 "fatal: post-receive: GIT_DIR not set"
606 projectdesc=$(sed -ne '1p' "$GIT_DIR/description")
607 # Check if the description is unchanged from it's default, and shorten it to a
608 # more manageable length if it is
609 if expr "$projectdesc" : "Unnamed repository.*$" >/dev/null
611 projectdesc="UNNAMED PROJECT"
614 recipients=$(git repo-config hooks.mailinglist)
615 announcerecipients=$(git repo-config hooks.announcelist)
616 envelopesender=$(git-repo-config hooks.envelopesender)
619 # Allow dual mode: run from the command line just like the update hook, or if
620 # no arguments are given then run as a hook script
621 if [ -n "$1" -a -n "$2" -a -n "$3" ]; then
622 # Output to the terminal in command line mode - if someone wanted to
623 # resend an email; they could redirect the output to sendmail themselves
624 PAGER= generate_email $2 $3 $1
626 while read oldrev newrev refname
628 generate_email $oldrev $newrev $refname | send_mail