Push and pull request difference

Question

Hi All,

After Pushing the changes to branch and also for successful merged the pull-request ,  for both the cases control will comes to PostReceiveRepositoryHook's public void postReceive().

How can we differentiate. whether the postReceive() called for pushing or merging.

Thanks

Anil

anil kumar42 · Answer

I didn't find the differences...I debugged it and for both same set of variables are there..how can I get to know whether my post-hook called after push or after pull-request.

Balázs Szakmáry · Answer

For the case with the pull request, you will see one of these refs in the refChanges collection.