using gitolite VREFs for update hook

Question

I am trying to migrate from v2 to v3 of gitolite. The old way of doing a server-side commit message check was to put the check in a repo specific hook in myrepo.git/hooks/update.secondary

In v3 of gitolite, they advise the check to be put in a VREF. The documentation is a little confusing and I am hoping for clarification.

I have added the following in /home/git/.gitolite.rc

LOCAL_CODE                  => "$ENV{HOME}/.gitolite/our_hooks",

In my our_hooks directory, I created a VREF folder and put my old update.secondary script in there. In my gitolite-admin/conf/gitolite.conf file, I added the following to the repository I want the script to execute on:

repo myrepo
  RW = @my_developers
  - VREF/update.secondary = @my_developers

When I try to push, I get a notice that the VREF/update.secondary can not be found. If I change to

repo myrepo
  RW = @my_developers
  - /home/git/.gitolite/our_hooks/VREF/update.secondary = @my_developers

I don't get any complaints but the hook doesn't appear to run at all.

Am I missing the boat on how to get an additional update check to run using gitolite?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 14 '12 at 02:38

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The documentation around this is a little confusing, so hopefully this will help others trying to get a chained update hook working with gitolite v3.

Everything I've done above is correct, the missing piece was were my update.secondary script needed to reside.

In the gitolite-admin/conf/gitolite.conf, the configuration should look like:

repo myrepo
  RW = @my_developers
  - VREF/update.secondary = @my_developers

Then there is a VREF directory in the GL_BINDIR directory. Place your executable update.secondary file in that directory.

The GL_BINDIR is the directory that contains the gitolite binary you ran in order to run: gitolite setup

answered Dec 14 '12 at 02:38

nathasm

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Thanks. I used a symlink in the VREFs dir to a update.secondary in hooks/common that then searches for and runs update.secondary in each repo. Should be default functionality IMHO. – Evan Davey Jan 21 '13 at 13:07
but how can I run an individual hook for each project? how can I manage it from gitolite-admin repository? thanks in advance – Serge Velikan Sep 27 '13 at 15:24

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

To add to the (upvoted) OP nathasm's answer, I have no problem using a LOCAL_CODE variable in my .gitolite.rc file, as mentioned in the section "alternate location" of "customising gitolite".

However, I never managed to use an environment variable.

In other words, this won't work:

LOCAL_CODE                  => "$ENV{HOME}/.gitolite/our_hooks",

But this will:

LOCAL_CODE                  => "/home/git/.gitolite/our_hooks",

Using the full path means that any VREF or hooks declared in /home/git/.gitolite/our_hooks/VREF will be recognized

repo myrepo
  RW = @my_developers
  - VREF/update.secondary = @my_developers

using gitolite VREFs for update hook

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