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
26 # To help with debugging and use on pre-v1.5.1 git servers, this script will
27 # also obey the interface of hooks/update, taking its arguments on the
28 # command line. Unfortunately, hooks/update is called once for each ref.
29 # To avoid firing one email per ref, this script just prints its output to
30 # the screen when used in this mode. The output can then be redirected if
36 # This is the list that all pushes will go to; leave it blank to not send
37 # emails for every ref update.
39 # This is the list that all pushes of annotated tags will go to. Leave it
40 # blank to default to the mailinglist field. The announce emails lists
41 # the short log summary of the changes since the last annotated tag.
42 # hooks.envelopesender
43 # If set then the -f option is passed to sendmail to allow the envelope
44 # sender address to be set
46 # All emails have their subjects prefixed with this prefix, or "[SCM]"
47 # if emailprefix is unset, to aid filtering
49 # The shell command used to format each revision in the email, with
50 # "%s" replaced with the commit id. Defaults to "git rev-list -1
51 # --pretty %s", displaying the commit id, author, date and log
52 # message. To list full patches separated by a blank line, you
53 # could set this to "git show -C %s; echo".
54 # To list a gitweb/cgit URL *and* a full patch for each change set, use this:
55 # "t=%s; printf 'http://.../?id=%%s' \$t; echo;echo; git show -C \$t; echo"
56 # Be careful if "..." contains things that will be expanded by shell "eval"
59 # The maximum number of lines that should be included in the generated
60 # email body. If not specified, there is no limit.
61 # Lines beyond the limit are suppressed and counted, and a final
62 # line is added indicating the number of suppressed lines.
66 # All emails include the headers "X-Git-Refname", "X-Git-Oldrev",
67 # "X-Git-Newrev", and "X-Git-Reftype" to enable fine tuned filtering and
68 # give information for debugging.
71 # ---------------------------- Functions
74 # Function to prepare for email generation. This decides what type
75 # of update this is and whether an email should even be generated.
80 oldrev=$(git rev-parse $1)
81 newrev=$(git rev-parse $2)
89 if expr "$oldrev" : '0*$' >/dev/null
93 if expr "$newrev" : '0*$' >/dev/null
101 # --- Get the revision types
102 newrev_type=$(git cat-file -t $newrev 2> /dev/null)
103 oldrev_type=$(git cat-file -t "$oldrev" 2> /dev/null)
104 case "$change_type" in
107 rev_type="$newrev_type"
111 rev_type="$oldrev_type"
115 # The revision type tells us what type the commit is, combined with
116 # the location of the ref we can decide between
121 case "$refname","$rev_type" in
125 short_refname=${refname##refs/tags/}
129 refname_type="annotated tag"
130 short_refname=${refname##refs/tags/}
132 if [ -n "$announcerecipients" ]; then
133 recipients="$announcerecipients"
138 refname_type="branch"
139 short_refname=${refname##refs/heads/}
141 refs/remotes/*,commit)
143 refname_type="tracking branch"
144 short_refname=${refname##refs/remotes/}
145 echo >&2 "*** Push-update of tracking branch, $refname"
146 echo >&2 "*** - no email generated."
150 # Anything else (is there anything else?)
151 echo >&2 "*** Unknown type of update to $refname ($rev_type)"
152 echo >&2 "*** - no email generated"
157 # Check if we've got anyone to send to
158 if [ -z "$recipients" ]; then
159 case "$refname_type" in
161 config_name="hooks.announcelist"
164 config_name="hooks.mailinglist"
167 echo >&2 "*** $config_name is not set so no email will be sent"
168 echo >&2 "*** for $refname update $oldrev->$newrev"
176 # Top level email generation function. This calls the appropriate
177 # body-generation routine after outputting the common header.
179 # Note this function doesn't actually generate any email output, that is
180 # taken care of by the functions it calls:
181 # - generate_email_header
182 # - generate_create_XXXX_email
183 # - generate_update_XXXX_email
184 # - generate_delete_XXXX_email
185 # - generate_email_footer
187 # Note also that this function cannot 'exit' from the script; when this
188 # function is running (in hook script mode), the send_mail() function
189 # is already executing in another process, connected via a pipe, and
190 # if this function exits without, whatever has been generated to that
191 # point will be sent as an email... even if nothing has been generated.
196 # The email subject will contain the best description of the ref
197 # that we can build from the parameters
198 describe=$(git describe $rev 2>/dev/null)
199 if [ -z "$describe" ]; then
203 generate_email_header
205 # Call the correct body generation function
207 case "$refname_type" in
208 "tracking branch"|branch)
216 if [ -z "$maxlines" ]; then
217 generate_${change_type}_${fn_name}_email
219 generate_${change_type}_${fn_name}_email | limit_lines $maxlines
222 generate_email_footer
225 generate_email_header()
227 # --- Email (all stdout will be the email)
231 Subject: ${emailprefix}$projectdesc $refname_type $short_refname ${change_type}d. $describe
232 X-Git-Refname: $refname
233 X-Git-Reftype: $refname_type
234 X-Git-Oldrev: $oldrev
235 X-Git-Newrev: $newrev
237 This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. It was
238 generated because a ref change was pushed to the repository containing
239 the project "$projectdesc".
241 The $refname_type, $short_refname has been ${change_type}d
245 generate_email_footer()
257 # --------------- Branches
260 # Called for the creation of a branch
262 generate_create_branch_email()
264 # This is a new branch and so oldrev is not valid
265 echo " at $newrev ($newrev_type)"
274 # Called for the change of a pre-existing branch
276 generate_update_branch_email()
279 # 1 --- 2 --- O --- X --- 3 --- 4 --- N
281 # O is $oldrev for $refname
282 # N is $newrev for $refname
283 # X is a revision pointed to by some other ref, for which we may
284 # assume that an email has already been generated.
285 # In this case we want to issue an email containing only revisions
286 # 3, 4, and N. Given (almost) by
288 # git rev-list N ^O --not --all
290 # The reason for the "almost", is that the "--not --all" will take
291 # precedence over the "N", and effectively will translate to
293 # git rev-list N ^O ^X ^N
295 # So, we need to build up the list more carefully. git rev-parse
296 # will generate a list of revs that may be fed into git rev-list.
297 # We can get it to make the "--not --all" part and then filter out
300 # git rev-parse --not --all | grep -v N
302 # Then, using the --stdin switch to git rev-list we have effectively
305 # git rev-list N ^O ^X
307 # This leaves a problem when someone else updates the repository
308 # while this script is running. Their new value of the ref we're
309 # working on would be included in the "--not --all" output; and as
310 # our $newrev would be an ancestor of that commit, it would exclude
311 # all of our commits. What we really want is to exclude the current
312 # value of $refname from the --not list, rather than N itself. So:
314 # git rev-parse --not --all | grep -v $(git rev-parse $refname)
316 # Get's us to something pretty safe (apart from the small time
317 # between refname being read, and git rev-parse running - for that,
321 # Next problem, consider this:
322 # * --- B --- * --- O ($oldrev)
324 # * --- X --- * --- N ($newrev)
326 # That is to say, there is no guarantee that oldrev is a strict
327 # subset of newrev (it would have required a --force, but that's
328 # allowed). So, we can't simply say rev-list $oldrev..$newrev.
329 # Instead we find the common base of the two revs and list from
332 # As above, we need to take into account the presence of X; if
333 # another branch is already in the repository and points at some of
334 # the revisions that we are about to output - we don't want them.
335 # The solution is as before: git rev-parse output filtered.
337 # Finally, tags: 1 --- 2 --- O --- T --- 3 --- 4 --- N
339 # Tags pushed into the repository generate nice shortlog emails that
340 # summarise the commits between them and the previous tag. However,
341 # those emails don't include the full commit messages that we output
342 # for a branch update. Therefore we still want to output revisions
343 # that have been output on a tag email.
345 # Luckily, git rev-parse includes just the tool. Instead of using
346 # "--all" we use "--branches"; this has the added benefit that
347 # "remotes/" will be ignored as well.
349 # List all of the revisions that were removed by this update, in a
350 # fast-forward update, this list will be empty, because rev-list O
351 # ^N is empty. For a non-fast-forward, O ^N is the list of removed
355 for rev in $(git rev-list $newrev..$oldrev)
357 revtype=$(git cat-file -t "$rev")
358 echo " discards $rev ($revtype)"
360 if [ -z "$rev" ]; then
364 # List all the revisions from baserev to newrev in a kind of
365 # "table-of-contents"; note this list can include revisions that
366 # have already had notification emails and is present to show the
367 # full detail of the change from rolling back the old revision to
368 # the base revision and then forward to the new revision
369 for rev in $(git rev-list $oldrev..$newrev)
371 revtype=$(git cat-file -t "$rev")
372 echo " via $rev ($revtype)"
375 if [ "$fast_forward" ]; then
376 echo " from $oldrev ($oldrev_type)"
378 # 1. Existing revisions were removed. In this case newrev
379 # is a subset of oldrev - this is the reverse of a
380 # fast-forward, a rewind
381 # 2. New revisions were added on top of an old revision,
382 # this is a rewind and addition.
384 # (1) certainly happened, (2) possibly. When (2) hasn't
385 # happened, we set a flag to indicate that no log printout
390 # Find the common ancestor of the old and new revisions and
391 # compare it with newrev
392 baserev=$(git merge-base $oldrev $newrev)
394 if [ "$baserev" = "$newrev" ]; then
395 echo "This update discarded existing revisions and left the branch pointing at"
396 echo "a previous point in the repository history."
398 echo " * -- * -- N ($newrev)"
400 echo " O -- O -- O ($oldrev)"
402 echo "The removed revisions are not necessarilly gone - if another reference"
403 echo "still refers to them they will stay in the repository."
406 echo "This update added new revisions after undoing existing revisions. That is"
407 echo "to say, the old revision is not a strict subset of the new revision. This"
408 echo "situation occurs when you --force push a change and generate a repository"
409 echo "containing something like this:"
411 echo " * -- * -- B -- O -- O -- O ($oldrev)"
413 echo " N -- N -- N ($newrev)"
415 echo "When this happens we assume that you've already had alert emails for all"
416 echo "of the O revisions, and so we here report only the revisions in the N"
417 echo "branch from the common base, B."
422 if [ -z "$rewind_only" ]; then
423 echo "Those revisions listed above that are new to this repository have"
424 echo "not appeared on any other notification email; so we list those"
425 echo "revisions in full, below."
431 # XXX: Need a way of detecting whether git rev-list actually
432 # outputted anything, so that we can issue a "no new
433 # revisions added by this update" message
437 echo "No new revisions were added by this update."
440 # The diffstat is shown from the old revision to the new revision.
441 # This is to show the truth of what happened in this change.
442 # There's no point showing the stat from the base to the new
443 # revision because the base is effectively a random revision at this
444 # point - the user will be interested in what this revision changed
445 # - including the undoing of previous revisions in the case of
446 # non-fast-forward updates.
448 echo "Summary of changes:"
449 git diff-tree --stat --summary --find-copies-harder $oldrev..$newrev
453 # Called for the deletion of a branch
455 generate_delete_branch_email()
460 git show -s --pretty=oneline $oldrev
464 # --------------- Annotated tags
467 # Called for the creation of an annotated tag
469 generate_create_atag_email()
471 echo " at $newrev ($newrev_type)"
477 # Called for the update of an annotated tag (this is probably a rare event
478 # and may not even be allowed)
480 generate_update_atag_email()
482 echo " to $newrev ($newrev_type)"
483 echo " from $oldrev (which is now obsolete)"
489 # Called when an annotated tag is created or changed
491 generate_atag_email()
493 # Use git for-each-ref to pull out the individual fields from the
495 eval $(git for-each-ref --shell --format='
496 tagobject=%(*objectname)
497 tagtype=%(*objecttype)
499 tagged=%(taggerdate)' $refname
502 echo " tagging $tagobject ($tagtype)"
506 # If the tagged object is a commit, then we assume this is a
507 # release, and so we calculate which tag this tag is
509 prevtag=$(git describe --abbrev=0 $newrev^ 2>/dev/null)
511 if [ -n "$prevtag" ]; then
512 echo " replaces $prevtag"
516 echo " length $(git cat-file -s $tagobject) bytes"
519 echo " tagged by $tagger"
525 # Show the content of the tag message; this might contain a change
526 # log or release notes so is worth displaying.
527 git cat-file tag $newrev | sed -e '1,/^$/d'
532 # Only commit tags make sense to have rev-list operations
534 if [ -n "$prevtag" ]; then
535 # Show changes since the previous release
536 git rev-list --pretty=short "$prevtag..$newrev" | git shortlog
538 # No previous tag, show all the changes since time
540 git rev-list --pretty=short $newrev | git shortlog
544 # XXX: Is there anything useful we can do for non-commit
553 # Called for the deletion of an annotated tag
555 generate_delete_atag_email()
560 git show -s --pretty=oneline $oldrev
564 # --------------- General references
567 # Called when any other type of reference is created (most likely a
570 generate_create_general_email()
572 echo " at $newrev ($newrev_type)"
574 generate_general_email
578 # Called when any other type of reference is updated (most likely a
581 generate_update_general_email()
583 echo " to $newrev ($newrev_type)"
586 generate_general_email
590 # Called for creation or update of any other type of reference
592 generate_general_email()
594 # Unannotated tags are more about marking a point than releasing a
595 # version; therefore we don't do the shortlog summary that we do for
596 # annotated tags above - we simply show that the point has been
597 # marked, and print the log message for the marked point for
600 # Note this section also catches any other reference type (although
601 # there aren't any) and deals with them in the same way.
604 if [ "$newrev_type" = "commit" ]; then
606 git show --no-color --root -s --pretty=medium $newrev
609 # What can we do here? The tag marks an object that is not
610 # a commit, so there is no log for us to display. It's
611 # probably not wise to output git cat-file as it could be a
612 # binary blob. We'll just say how big it is
613 echo "$newrev is a $newrev_type, and is $(git cat-file -s $newrev) bytes long."
618 # Called for the deletion of any other type of reference
620 generate_delete_general_email()
625 git show -s --pretty=oneline $oldrev
630 # --------------- Miscellaneous utilities
633 # Show new revisions as the user would like to see them in the email.
637 # This shows all log entries that are not already covered by
638 # another ref - i.e. commits that are now accessible from this
639 # ref that were previously not accessible
640 # (see generate_update_branch_email for the explanation of this
643 # Revision range passed to rev-list differs for new vs. updated
645 if [ "$change_type" = create ]
647 # Show all revisions exclusive to this (new) branch.
650 # Branch update; show revisions not part of $oldrev.
651 revspec=$oldrev..$newrev
654 other_branches=$(git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' refs/heads/ |
656 git rev-parse --not $other_branches |
657 if [ -z "$custom_showrev" ]
659 git rev-list --pretty --stdin $revspec
661 git rev-list --stdin $revspec |
664 eval $(printf "$custom_showrev" $onerev)
674 while IFS="" read -r line; do
676 if [ $lines -gt $1 ]; then
677 skipped=$((skipped + 1))
679 printf "%s\n" "$line"
682 if [ $skipped -ne 0 ]; then
683 echo "... $skipped lines suppressed ..."
690 if [ -n "$envelopesender" ]; then
691 /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f "$envelopesender"
693 /usr/sbin/sendmail -t
697 # ---------------------------- main()
700 LOGBEGIN="- Log -----------------------------------------------------------------"
701 LOGEND="-----------------------------------------------------------------------"
704 # Set GIT_DIR either from the working directory, or from the environment
706 GIT_DIR=$(git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null)
707 if [ -z "$GIT_DIR" ]; then
708 echo >&2 "fatal: post-receive: GIT_DIR not set"
712 projectdesc=$(sed -ne '1p' "$GIT_DIR/description")
713 # Check if the description is unchanged from it's default, and shorten it to
714 # a more manageable length if it is
715 if expr "$projectdesc" : "Unnamed repository.*$" >/dev/null
717 projectdesc="UNNAMED PROJECT"
720 recipients=$(git config hooks.mailinglist)
721 announcerecipients=$(git config hooks.announcelist)
722 envelopesender=$(git config hooks.envelopesender)
723 emailprefix=$(git config hooks.emailprefix || echo '[SCM] ')
724 custom_showrev=$(git config hooks.showrev)
725 maxlines=$(git config hooks.emailmaxlines)
728 # Allow dual mode: run from the command line just like the update hook, or
729 # if no arguments are given then run as a hook script
730 if [ -n "$1" -a -n "$2" -a -n "$3" ]; then
731 # Output to the terminal in command line mode - if someone wanted to
732 # resend an email; they could redirect the output to sendmail
734 prep_for_email $2 $3 $1 && PAGER= generate_email
736 while read oldrev newrev refname
738 prep_for_email $oldrev $newrev $refname || continue
739 generate_email $maxlines | send_mail