Use GIT Hooks with stash?

[Jochen Häberle]

Is it possible to use GIT hooks in .git/hooks/ with Stash?

It would like to know if I can write a simple shell script for the post-receive hook to be run by the server on a git push. It should check out a branch to a webserver.

I was not able to find a word on this anywhere.

Thanks in advance, regards from munich

Jochen

[Michael Heemskerk · Accepted solution]

Hi Jochen,

You can use standard git hook scripts with Stash (in addition to Java-based hooks). Just pop them in the <STASH_HOME>/data/repositories/<repo-id>/hooks/post-receive.d directory.

Cheers,

Michael

[Jochen Häberle]

Thx! I will give it a try!

Cheers,

Jochen

[Kenneth Olwing]

Sorry for butting in...is there more in depth documentation on this subject somewhere?

Some specific questions off the top of my head:

1. Is there any location where I can place standard git hook scripts so they automatically get placed in (post|pre)-receive.d when new repos get created?
   (Yes, Java based hooks are nice, but I have a few Perl hooks I can't discard at the moment).
   
   
2. Can I on a global/project level mandate the use of one or more (Java based) hooks for 'all' repos (or 'all' in a given project). As a sysadmin mandate, can I protect them from being disabled for certain repos?
   
   
3. Is there any UI to allow me to simply work with hooks for a set of repos, i.e. looking at a list of 133 repos, I'd like to check 57 and then 'enable hook X for all checked'.

I can probably work around things in various ways, but in case there are existing ways to achieve them, it'd be nice(r)...

Thanks,

ken1

[cofarrell]

Hi Kenneth,

There isn't really any documentation about managing raw Git hooks, possibly because it's not necessarily something Stash wants to encourage.

1. I believe you should be able to add them to the global Git templates directory, which is used when new Git repositories are created in Stash. I would recommend using symlinks to the actual script so that when the file is _copied_ it will be a copy of the symlink and not the actual file (which will then get out of sync).

2. Not at the moment. This is something that's a more general problem for most of the repository settings, not just hooks. This might be a good feature request to follow:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/STASH-3597

3. Again, not at the moment. Your best bet would be to use our REST api from a local script:

https://developer.atlassian.com/static/rest/stash/latest/stash-rest.html#idp2683712

Cheers,

Charles

[Kenneth Olwing]

Thanks Charles, I'll investigate.

[cofarrell]

One thing I forgot to mention - if you do create the templates in the global templates directory make sure you add them to pre-receive.d or post-receive.d, otherwise they won't work.