githooks - Local executing hook after a git push?

Question

I've looked at the githooks manpage but unless I'm missing something I don't see an option for local, post-push git hooks. I'd like to have one that updates the api docs on my web server (for which I already have a script) after I push the master branch to the GitHub repo. Of course I could just write my own script that combines the git push and the api docs run, but that feels somewhat inelegant.

Answer 1

Another solution to this problem is to have a wrapper for git push that executes .git/hooks/pre-push and .git/hooks/post-push scripts before and after the git push call. A possible wrapper could look like this:

#!/bin/sh

GIT_DIR_="$(git rev-parse --git-dir)"
BRANCH="$(git rev-parse --symbolic --abbrev-ref $(git symbolic-ref HEAD))"

PRE_PUSH="$GIT_DIR_/hooks/pre-push"
POST_PUSH="$GIT_DIR_/hooks/post-push"

test -x "$PRE_PUSH" &&
    exec "$PRE_PUSH" "$BRANCH" "$@"

git push "$@"

test $? -eq 0 && test -x "$POST_PUSH" &&
    exec "$POST_PUSH" "$BRANCH" "$@"

Saved as git-push-wh somewhere in your PATH, it can then be called as git push-wh if you want to push with hooks.