git post-receive hook in php

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I want to be able to execute a php hook on post-receive hook, to copy files from the git repo to web folder on the same server and only run if it was pushed was made on a master branch ignoring other branches. Below is what I've got so far.

!/usr/bin/php
<?php

exec("git archive master | tar -x -C /var/www/", $output);

?>

Basically, im not sure how to access git arguments using php.

+1 because git is awesome and I don't feel like researching the details. hopefully someone else will take care of this quickly and we can all get smarter:) — , Jan 24 '12 at 02:07
The bit im unsure about is accessig the argument so i can ignore all branches other than the master. — madphp, Jan 24 '12 at 02:34
Look at the parameters passed to the hook in the man page or elsewhere, use $argv[] to access them. — Timothy Meade, Jan 24 '12 at 06:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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Don't forget a post-receive hook doesn't take arguments: it reads data on stdin.

The "post-receive" script is run after receive-pack has accepted a pack and the repository has been updated. It is passed arguments in through stdin in the form:

<oldrev> <newrev> <refname>

So you will need to read said arguments to extract the branch (the example is in bash but you can adapt it)

edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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answered Jan 24 '12 at 07:27

VonC

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On reading from stdin from a php script: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/554760/php-standard-input, or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2390604/how-to-pass-variables-as-stdin-into-command-line-from-php if `php://stdin` isn't the right stream to read from. – VonC Jan 24 '12 at 07:35

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