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
44 # All emails include the headers "X-Git-Refname", "X-Git-Oldrev",
45 # "X-Git-Newrev", and "X-Git-Reftype" to enable fine tuned filtering and
46 # give information for debugging.
49 # ---------------------------- Functions
52 # Top level email generation function. This decides what type of update
53 # this is and calls the appropriate body-generation routine after outputting
56 # Note this function doesn't actually generate any email output, that is
57 # taken care of by the functions it calls:
58 # - generate_email_header
59 # - generate_create_XXXX_email
60 # - generate_update_XXXX_email
61 # - generate_delete_XXXX_email
62 # - generate_email_footer
67 oldrev=$(git rev-parse $1)
68 newrev=$(git rev-parse $2)
75 if expr "$oldrev" : '0*$' >/dev/null
79 if expr "$newrev" : '0*$' >/dev/null
87 # --- Get the revision types
88 newrev_type=$(git cat-file -t $newrev 2> /dev/null)
89 oldrev_type=$(git cat-file -t "$oldrev" 2> /dev/null)
90 case "$change_type" in
93 rev_type="$newrev_type"
97 rev_type="$oldrev_type"
101 # The revision type tells us what type the commit is, combined with
102 # the location of the ref we can decide between
107 case "$refname","$rev_type" in
111 short_refname=${refname##refs/tags/}
115 refname_type="annotated tag"
116 short_refname=${refname##refs/tags/}
118 if [ -n "$announcerecipients" ]; then
119 recipients="$announcerecipients"
124 refname_type="branch"
125 short_refname=${refname##refs/heads/}
127 refs/remotes/*,commit)
129 refname_type="tracking branch"
130 short_refname=${refname##refs/remotes/}
131 echo >&2 "*** Push-update of tracking branch, $refname"
132 echo >&2 "*** - no email generated."
136 # Anything else (is there anything else?)
137 echo >&2 "*** Unknown type of update to $refname ($rev_type)"
138 echo >&2 "*** - no email generated"
143 # Check if we've got anyone to send to
144 if [ -z "$recipients" ]; then
145 case "$refname_type" in
147 config_name="hooks.announcelist"
150 config_name="hooks.mailinglist"
153 echo >&2 "*** $config_name is not set so no email will be sent"
154 echo >&2 "*** for $refname update $oldrev->$newrev"
159 # The committer will be obtained from the latest existing rev; so
160 # for a deletion it will be the oldrev, for the others, then newrev
161 committer=$(git show --pretty=full -s $rev | sed -ne "s/^Commit: //p" |
162 sed -ne 's/\(.*\) </"\1" </p')
163 # The email subject will contain the best description of the ref
164 # that we can build from the parameters
165 describe=$(git describe $rev 2>/dev/null)
166 if [ -z "$describe" ]; then
170 generate_email_header
172 # Call the correct body generation function
174 case "$refname_type" in
175 "tracking branch"|branch)
182 generate_${change_type}_${fn_name}_email
184 generate_email_footer
187 generate_email_header()
189 # --- Email (all stdout will be the email)
193 Subject: ${emailprefix}$projectdesc $refname_type, $short_refname, ${change_type}d. $describe
194 X-Git-Refname: $refname
195 X-Git-Reftype: $refname_type
196 X-Git-Oldrev: $oldrev
197 X-Git-Newrev: $newrev
199 This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. It was
200 generated because a ref change was pushed to the repository containing
201 the project "$projectdesc".
203 The $refname_type, $short_refname has been ${change_type}d
207 generate_email_footer()
218 # --------------- Branches
221 # Called for the creation of a branch
223 generate_create_branch_email()
225 # This is a new branch and so oldrev is not valid
226 echo " at $newrev ($newrev_type)"
230 # This shows all log entries that are not already covered by
231 # another ref - i.e. commits that are now accessible from this
232 # ref that were previously not accessible
233 # (see generate_update_branch_email for the explanation of this
235 git rev-parse --not --branches | grep -v $(git rev-parse $refname) |
236 git rev-list --pretty --stdin $newrev
241 # Called for the change of a pre-existing branch
243 generate_update_branch_email()
246 # 1 --- 2 --- O --- X --- 3 --- 4 --- N
248 # O is $oldrev for $refname
249 # N is $newrev for $refname
250 # X is a revision pointed to by some other ref, for which we may
251 # assume that an email has already been generated.
252 # In this case we want to issue an email containing only revisions
253 # 3, 4, and N. Given (almost) by
255 # git-rev-list N ^O --not --all
257 # The reason for the "almost", is that the "--not --all" will take
258 # precedence over the "N", and effectively will translate to
260 # git-rev-list N ^O ^X ^N
262 # So, we need to build up the list more carefully. git-rev-parse
263 # will generate a list of revs that may be fed into git-rev-list.
264 # We can get it to make the "--not --all" part and then filter out
267 # git-rev-parse --not --all | grep -v N
269 # Then, using the --stdin switch to git-rev-list we have effectively
272 # git-rev-list N ^O ^X
274 # This leaves a problem when someone else updates the repository
275 # while this script is running. Their new value of the ref we're
276 # working on would be included in the "--not --all" output; and as
277 # our $newrev would be an ancestor of that commit, it would exclude
278 # all of our commits. What we really want is to exclude the current
279 # value of $refname from the --not list, rather than N itself. So:
281 # git-rev-parse --not --all | grep -v $(git-rev-parse $refname)
283 # Get's us to something pretty safe (apart from the small time
284 # between refname being read, and git-rev-parse running - for that,
288 # Next problem, consider this:
289 # * --- B --- * --- O ($oldrev)
291 # * --- X --- * --- N ($newrev)
293 # That is to say, there is no guarantee that oldrev is a strict
294 # subset of newrev (it would have required a --force, but that's
295 # allowed). So, we can't simply say rev-list $oldrev..$newrev.
296 # Instead we find the common base of the two revs and list from
299 # As above, we need to take into account the presence of X; if
300 # another branch is already in the repository and points at some of
301 # the revisions that we are about to output - we don't want them.
302 # The solution is as before: git-rev-parse output filtered.
304 # Finally, tags: 1 --- 2 --- O --- T --- 3 --- 4 --- N
306 # Tags pushed into the repository generate nice shortlog emails that
307 # summarise the commits between them and the previous tag. However,
308 # those emails don't include the full commit messages that we output
309 # for a branch update. Therefore we still want to output revisions
310 # that have been output on a tag email.
312 # Luckily, git-rev-parse includes just the tool. Instead of using
313 # "--all" we use "--branches"; this has the added benefit that
314 # "remotes/" will be ignored as well.
316 # List all of the revisions that were removed by this update, in a
317 # fast forward update, this list will be empty, because rev-list O
318 # ^N is empty. For a non fast forward, O ^N is the list of removed
322 for rev in $(git rev-list $newrev..$oldrev)
324 revtype=$(git cat-file -t "$rev")
325 echo " discards $rev ($revtype)"
327 if [ -z "$rev" ]; then
331 # List all the revisions from baserev to newrev in a kind of
332 # "table-of-contents"; note this list can include revisions that
333 # have already had notification emails and is present to show the
334 # full detail of the change from rolling back the old revision to
335 # the base revision and then forward to the new revision
336 for rev in $(git rev-list $oldrev..$newrev)
338 revtype=$(git cat-file -t "$rev")
339 echo " via $rev ($revtype)"
342 if [ "$fast_forward" ]; then
343 echo " from $oldrev ($oldrev_type)"
345 # 1. Existing revisions were removed. In this case newrev
346 # is a subset of oldrev - this is the reverse of a
347 # fast-forward, a rewind
348 # 2. New revisions were added on top of an old revision,
349 # this is a rewind and addition.
351 # (1) certainly happened, (2) possibly. When (2) hasn't
352 # happened, we set a flag to indicate that no log printout
357 # Find the common ancestor of the old and new revisions and
358 # compare it with newrev
359 baserev=$(git merge-base $oldrev $newrev)
361 if [ "$baserev" = "$newrev" ]; then
362 echo "This update discarded existing revisions and left the branch pointing at"
363 echo "a previous point in the repository history."
365 echo " * -- * -- N ($newrev)"
367 echo " O -- O -- O ($oldrev)"
369 echo "The removed revisions are not necessarilly gone - if another reference"
370 echo "still refers to them they will stay in the repository."
373 echo "This update added new revisions after undoing existing revisions. That is"
374 echo "to say, the old revision is not a strict subset of the new revision. This"
375 echo "situation occurs when you --force push a change and generate a repository"
376 echo "containing something like this:"
378 echo " * -- * -- B -- O -- O -- O ($oldrev)"
380 echo " N -- N -- N ($newrev)"
382 echo "When this happens we assume that you've already had alert emails for all"
383 echo "of the O revisions, and so we here report only the revisions in the N"
384 echo "branch from the common base, B."
389 if [ -z "$rewind_only" ]; then
390 echo "Those revisions listed above that are new to this repository have"
391 echo "not appeared on any other notification email; so we list those"
392 echo "revisions in full, below."
396 git rev-parse --not --branches | grep -v $(git rev-parse $refname) |
397 git rev-list --pretty --stdin $oldrev..$newrev
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 $newrev
577 # What can we do here? The tag marks an object that is not
578 # a commit, so there is no log for us to display. It's
579 # probably not wise to output git-cat-file as it could be a
580 # binary blob. We'll just say how big it is
581 echo "$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 $oldrev
599 if [ -n "$envelopesender" ]; then
600 /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f "$envelopesender"
602 /usr/sbin/sendmail -t
606 # ---------------------------- main()
609 LOGBEGIN="- Log -----------------------------------------------------------------"
610 LOGEND="-----------------------------------------------------------------------"
613 # Set GIT_DIR either from the working directory, or from the environment
615 GIT_DIR=$(git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null)
616 if [ -z "$GIT_DIR" ]; then
617 echo >&2 "fatal: post-receive: GIT_DIR not set"
621 projectdesc=$(sed -ne '1p' "$GIT_DIR/description")
622 # Check if the description is unchanged from it's default, and shorten it to
623 # a more manageable length if it is
624 if expr "$projectdesc" : "Unnamed repository.*$" >/dev/null
626 projectdesc="UNNAMED PROJECT"
629 recipients=$(git repo-config hooks.mailinglist)
630 announcerecipients=$(git repo-config hooks.announcelist)
631 envelopesender=$(git-repo-config hooks.envelopesender)
632 emailprefix=$(git-repo-config hooks.emailprefix || echo '[SCM] ')
635 # Allow dual mode: run from the command line just like the update hook, or
636 # if no arguments are given then run as a hook script
637 if [ -n "$1" -a -n "$2" -a -n "$3" ]; then
638 # Output to the terminal in command line mode - if someone wanted to
639 # resend an email; they could redirect the output to sendmail
641 PAGER= generate_email $2 $3 $1
643 while read oldrev newrev refname
645 generate_email $oldrev $newrev $refname | send_mail