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
39 # All emails have their subjects prefixed with this prefix, or "[SCM]"
40 # if emailprefix is unset, to aid filtering
42 # The shell command used to format each revision in the email, with
43 # "%s" replaced with the commit id. Defaults to "git rev-list -1
44 # --pretty %s", displaying the commit id, author, date and log
45 # message. To list full patches separated by a blank line, you
46 # could set this to "git show -C %s; echo".
47 # To list a gitweb/cgit URL *and* a full patch for each change set, use this:
48 # "t=%s; printf 'http://.../?id=%%s' \$t; echo;echo; git show -C \$t; echo"
49 # Be careful if "..." contains things that will be expanded by shell "eval"
54 # All emails include the headers "X-Git-Refname", "X-Git-Oldrev",
55 # "X-Git-Newrev", and "X-Git-Reftype" to enable fine tuned filtering and
56 # give information for debugging.
59 # ---------------------------- Functions
62 # Top level email generation function. This decides what type of update
63 # this is and calls the appropriate body-generation routine after outputting
66 # Note this function doesn't actually generate any email output, that is
67 # taken care of by the functions it calls:
68 # - generate_email_header
69 # - generate_create_XXXX_email
70 # - generate_update_XXXX_email
71 # - generate_delete_XXXX_email
72 # - generate_email_footer
77 oldrev=$(git rev-parse $1)
78 newrev=$(git rev-parse $2)
85 if expr "$oldrev" : '0*$' >/dev/null
89 if expr "$newrev" : '0*$' >/dev/null
97 # --- Get the revision types
98 newrev_type=$(git cat-file -t $newrev 2> /dev/null)
99 oldrev_type=$(git cat-file -t "$oldrev" 2> /dev/null)
100 case "$change_type" in
103 rev_type="$newrev_type"
107 rev_type="$oldrev_type"
111 # The revision type tells us what type the commit is, combined with
112 # the location of the ref we can decide between
117 case "$refname","$rev_type" in
121 short_refname=${refname##refs/tags/}
125 refname_type="annotated tag"
126 short_refname=${refname##refs/tags/}
128 if [ -n "$announcerecipients" ]; then
129 recipients="$announcerecipients"
134 refname_type="branch"
135 short_refname=${refname##refs/heads/}
137 refs/remotes/*,commit)
139 refname_type="tracking branch"
140 short_refname=${refname##refs/remotes/}
141 echo >&2 "*** Push-update of tracking branch, $refname"
142 echo >&2 "*** - no email generated."
146 # Anything else (is there anything else?)
147 echo >&2 "*** Unknown type of update to $refname ($rev_type)"
148 echo >&2 "*** - no email generated"
153 # Check if we've got anyone to send to
154 if [ -z "$recipients" ]; then
155 case "$refname_type" in
157 config_name="hooks.announcelist"
160 config_name="hooks.mailinglist"
163 echo >&2 "*** $config_name is not set so no email will be sent"
164 echo >&2 "*** for $refname update $oldrev->$newrev"
169 # The email subject will contain the best description of the ref
170 # that we can build from the parameters
171 describe=$(git describe $rev 2>/dev/null)
172 if [ -z "$describe" ]; then
176 generate_email_header
178 # Call the correct body generation function
180 case "$refname_type" in
181 "tracking branch"|branch)
188 generate_${change_type}_${fn_name}_email
190 generate_email_footer
193 generate_email_header()
195 # --- Email (all stdout will be the email)
199 Subject: ${emailprefix}$projectdesc $refname_type, $short_refname, ${change_type}d. $describe
200 X-Git-Refname: $refname
201 X-Git-Reftype: $refname_type
202 X-Git-Oldrev: $oldrev
203 X-Git-Newrev: $newrev
205 This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. It was
206 generated because a ref change was pushed to the repository containing
207 the project "$projectdesc".
209 The $refname_type, $short_refname has been ${change_type}d
213 generate_email_footer()
225 # --------------- Branches
228 # Called for the creation of a branch
230 generate_create_branch_email()
232 # This is a new branch and so oldrev is not valid
233 echo " at $newrev ($newrev_type)"
242 # Called for the change of a pre-existing branch
244 generate_update_branch_email()
247 # 1 --- 2 --- O --- X --- 3 --- 4 --- N
249 # O is $oldrev for $refname
250 # N is $newrev for $refname
251 # X is a revision pointed to by some other ref, for which we may
252 # assume that an email has already been generated.
253 # In this case we want to issue an email containing only revisions
254 # 3, 4, and N. Given (almost) by
256 # git rev-list N ^O --not --all
258 # The reason for the "almost", is that the "--not --all" will take
259 # precedence over the "N", and effectively will translate to
261 # git rev-list N ^O ^X ^N
263 # So, we need to build up the list more carefully. git rev-parse
264 # will generate a list of revs that may be fed into git rev-list.
265 # We can get it to make the "--not --all" part and then filter out
268 # git rev-parse --not --all | grep -v N
270 # Then, using the --stdin switch to git rev-list we have effectively
273 # git rev-list N ^O ^X
275 # This leaves a problem when someone else updates the repository
276 # while this script is running. Their new value of the ref we're
277 # working on would be included in the "--not --all" output; and as
278 # our $newrev would be an ancestor of that commit, it would exclude
279 # all of our commits. What we really want is to exclude the current
280 # value of $refname from the --not list, rather than N itself. So:
282 # git rev-parse --not --all | grep -v $(git rev-parse $refname)
284 # Get's us to something pretty safe (apart from the small time
285 # between refname being read, and git rev-parse running - for that,
289 # Next problem, consider this:
290 # * --- B --- * --- O ($oldrev)
292 # * --- X --- * --- N ($newrev)
294 # That is to say, there is no guarantee that oldrev is a strict
295 # subset of newrev (it would have required a --force, but that's
296 # allowed). So, we can't simply say rev-list $oldrev..$newrev.
297 # Instead we find the common base of the two revs and list from
300 # As above, we need to take into account the presence of X; if
301 # another branch is already in the repository and points at some of
302 # the revisions that we are about to output - we don't want them.
303 # The solution is as before: git rev-parse output filtered.
305 # Finally, tags: 1 --- 2 --- O --- T --- 3 --- 4 --- N
307 # Tags pushed into the repository generate nice shortlog emails that
308 # summarise the commits between them and the previous tag. However,
309 # those emails don't include the full commit messages that we output
310 # for a branch update. Therefore we still want to output revisions
311 # that have been output on a tag email.
313 # Luckily, git rev-parse includes just the tool. Instead of using
314 # "--all" we use "--branches"; this has the added benefit that
315 # "remotes/" will be ignored as well.
317 # List all of the revisions that were removed by this update, in a
318 # fast-forward update, this list will be empty, because rev-list O
319 # ^N is empty. For a non-fast-forward, O ^N is the list of removed
323 for rev in $(git rev-list $newrev..$oldrev)
325 revtype=$(git cat-file -t "$rev")
326 echo " discards $rev ($revtype)"
328 if [ -z "$rev" ]; then
332 # List all the revisions from baserev to newrev in a kind of
333 # "table-of-contents"; note this list can include revisions that
334 # have already had notification emails and is present to show the
335 # full detail of the change from rolling back the old revision to
336 # the base revision and then forward to the new revision
337 for rev in $(git rev-list $oldrev..$newrev)
339 revtype=$(git cat-file -t "$rev")
340 echo " via $rev ($revtype)"
343 if [ "$fast_forward" ]; then
344 echo " from $oldrev ($oldrev_type)"
346 # 1. Existing revisions were removed. In this case newrev
347 # is a subset of oldrev - this is the reverse of a
348 # fast-forward, a rewind
349 # 2. New revisions were added on top of an old revision,
350 # this is a rewind and addition.
352 # (1) certainly happened, (2) possibly. When (2) hasn't
353 # happened, we set a flag to indicate that no log printout
358 # Find the common ancestor of the old and new revisions and
359 # compare it with newrev
360 baserev=$(git merge-base $oldrev $newrev)
362 if [ "$baserev" = "$newrev" ]; then
363 echo "This update discarded existing revisions and left the branch pointing at"
364 echo "a previous point in the repository history."
366 echo " * -- * -- N ($newrev)"
368 echo " O -- O -- O ($oldrev)"
370 echo "The removed revisions are not necessarilly gone - if another reference"
371 echo "still refers to them they will stay in the repository."
374 echo "This update added new revisions after undoing existing revisions. That is"
375 echo "to say, the old revision is not a strict subset of the new revision. This"
376 echo "situation occurs when you --force push a change and generate a repository"
377 echo "containing something like this:"
379 echo " * -- * -- B -- O -- O -- O ($oldrev)"
381 echo " N -- N -- N ($newrev)"
383 echo "When this happens we assume that you've already had alert emails for all"
384 echo "of the O revisions, and so we here report only the revisions in the N"
385 echo "branch from the common base, B."
390 if [ -z "$rewind_only" ]; then
391 echo "Those revisions listed above that are new to this repository have"
392 echo "not appeared on any other notification email; so we list those"
393 echo "revisions in full, below."
399 # XXX: Need a way of detecting whether git rev-list actually
400 # outputted anything, so that we can issue a "no new
401 # revisions added by this update" message
405 echo "No new revisions were added by this update."
408 # The diffstat is shown from the old revision to the new revision.
409 # This is to show the truth of what happened in this change.
410 # There's no point showing the stat from the base to the new
411 # revision because the base is effectively a random revision at this
412 # point - the user will be interested in what this revision changed
413 # - including the undoing of previous revisions in the case of
414 # non-fast-forward updates.
416 echo "Summary of changes:"
417 git diff-tree --stat --summary --find-copies-harder $oldrev..$newrev
421 # Called for the deletion of a branch
423 generate_delete_branch_email()
428 git show -s --pretty=oneline $oldrev
432 # --------------- Annotated tags
435 # Called for the creation of an annotated tag
437 generate_create_atag_email()
439 echo " at $newrev ($newrev_type)"
445 # Called for the update of an annotated tag (this is probably a rare event
446 # and may not even be allowed)
448 generate_update_atag_email()
450 echo " to $newrev ($newrev_type)"
451 echo " from $oldrev (which is now obsolete)"
457 # Called when an annotated tag is created or changed
459 generate_atag_email()
461 # Use git for-each-ref to pull out the individual fields from the
463 eval $(git for-each-ref --shell --format='
464 tagobject=%(*objectname)
465 tagtype=%(*objecttype)
467 tagged=%(taggerdate)' $refname
470 echo " tagging $tagobject ($tagtype)"
474 # If the tagged object is a commit, then we assume this is a
475 # release, and so we calculate which tag this tag is
477 prevtag=$(git describe --abbrev=0 $newrev^ 2>/dev/null)
479 if [ -n "$prevtag" ]; then
480 echo " replaces $prevtag"
484 echo " length $(git cat-file -s $tagobject) bytes"
487 echo " tagged by $tagger"
493 # Show the content of the tag message; this might contain a change
494 # log or release notes so is worth displaying.
495 git cat-file tag $newrev | sed -e '1,/^$/d'
500 # Only commit tags make sense to have rev-list operations
502 if [ -n "$prevtag" ]; then
503 # Show changes since the previous release
504 git rev-list --pretty=short "$prevtag..$newrev" | git shortlog
506 # No previous tag, show all the changes since time
508 git rev-list --pretty=short $newrev | git shortlog
512 # XXX: Is there anything useful we can do for non-commit
521 # Called for the deletion of an annotated tag
523 generate_delete_atag_email()
528 git show -s --pretty=oneline $oldrev
532 # --------------- General references
535 # Called when any other type of reference is created (most likely a
538 generate_create_general_email()
540 echo " at $newrev ($newrev_type)"
542 generate_general_email
546 # Called when any other type of reference is updated (most likely a
549 generate_update_general_email()
551 echo " to $newrev ($newrev_type)"
554 generate_general_email
558 # Called for creation or update of any other type of reference
560 generate_general_email()
562 # Unannotated tags are more about marking a point than releasing a
563 # version; therefore we don't do the shortlog summary that we do for
564 # annotated tags above - we simply show that the point has been
565 # marked, and print the log message for the marked point for
568 # Note this section also catches any other reference type (although
569 # there aren't any) and deals with them in the same way.
572 if [ "$newrev_type" = "commit" ]; then
574 git show --no-color --root -s --pretty=medium $newrev
577 # What can we do here? The tag marks an object that is not
578 # a commit, so there is no log for us to display. It's
579 # probably not wise to output git cat-file as it could be a
580 # binary blob. We'll just say how big it is
581 echo "$newrev is a $newrev_type, and is $(git cat-file -s $newrev) bytes long."
586 # Called for the deletion of any other type of reference
588 generate_delete_general_email()
593 git show -s --pretty=oneline $oldrev
598 # --------------- Miscellaneous utilities
601 # Show new revisions as the user would like to see them in the email.
605 # This shows all log entries that are not already covered by
606 # another ref - i.e. commits that are now accessible from this
607 # ref that were previously not accessible
608 # (see generate_update_branch_email for the explanation of this
611 # Revision range passed to rev-list differs for new vs. updated
613 if [ "$change_type" = create ]
615 # Show all revisions exclusive to this (new) branch.
618 # Branch update; show revisions not part of $oldrev.
619 revspec=$oldrev..$newrev
622 other_branches=$(git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' refs/heads/ |
624 git rev-parse --not $other_branches |
625 if [ -z "$custom_showrev" ]
627 git rev-list --pretty --stdin $revspec
629 git rev-list --stdin $revspec |
632 eval $(printf "$custom_showrev" $onerev)
640 if [ -n "$envelopesender" ]; then
641 /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f "$envelopesender"
643 /usr/sbin/sendmail -t
647 # ---------------------------- main()
650 LOGBEGIN="- Log -----------------------------------------------------------------"
651 LOGEND="-----------------------------------------------------------------------"
654 # Set GIT_DIR either from the working directory, or from the environment
656 GIT_DIR=$(git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null)
657 if [ -z "$GIT_DIR" ]; then
658 echo >&2 "fatal: post-receive: GIT_DIR not set"
662 projectdesc=$(sed -ne '1p' "$GIT_DIR/description")
663 # Check if the description is unchanged from it's default, and shorten it to
664 # a more manageable length if it is
665 if expr "$projectdesc" : "Unnamed repository.*$" >/dev/null
667 projectdesc="UNNAMED PROJECT"
670 recipients=$(git config hooks.mailinglist)
671 announcerecipients=$(git config hooks.announcelist)
672 envelopesender=$(git config hooks.envelopesender)
673 emailprefix=$(git config hooks.emailprefix || echo '[SCM] ')
674 custom_showrev=$(git config hooks.showrev)
677 # Allow dual mode: run from the command line just like the update hook, or
678 # if no arguments are given then run as a hook script
679 if [ -n "$1" -a -n "$2" -a -n "$3" ]; then
680 # Output to the terminal in command line mode - if someone wanted to
681 # resend an email; they could redirect the output to sendmail
683 PAGER= generate_email $2 $3 $1
685 while read oldrev newrev refname
687 generate_email $oldrev $newrev $refname | send_mail