[PATCH v6 1/4] doc: add proc-receive hook info in 'git-receive-pack.adoc'
From: Karthik Nayak <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-03 09:28:12
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
The manpage of git-receive-pack(1) documents hooks invoked when receiving a push. The manpage does not mention the 'proc-receive' hook though, which is also invoked as part of that process. Add a paragraph about this hook to plug that gap. Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <redacted> --- Documentation/git-receive-pack.adoc | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.adoc b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.adoc
index 0956086d61..5806792ba7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.adoc@@ -236,6 +236,14 @@ if the repository is packed and is served via a dumb transport. exec git update-server-info ---- +PROC-RECEIVE HOOK +----------------- +This hook is invoked by linkgit:git-receive-pack[1]. If the server has +set the multi-valued config variable `receive.procReceiveRefs`, and the +commands sent to 'receive-pack' have matching reference names, these +commands will be executed by this hook, instead of by the internal +`execute_commands()` function. This hook is responsible for updating +the relevant references and reporting the results back to 'receive-pack'. QUARANTINE ENVIRONMENT ----------------------
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