Running Custom Hooks in Gitolite3

Sometimes you need to use hooks, but hooks are configured individually for each repository. Sometimes, however, you need a shared hook for all specified repositories. This can also be done using Gitolite3.

Configuring the local gitolite.conf

Open the file conf/gitolite.conf in the gitolite-admin repository for editing and specify which repositories (all of them in our example) and which users the hook should be invoked for:

repo @all
    -   VREF/my_hook  =   @all

Configuring .gitolite.rc on the server

Log in to the server and open the file ~/.gitolite.rc for editing, find the line LOCAL_CODE and uncomment it:

# this one is managed directly on the server
LOCAL_CODE                =>  "$ENV{HOME}/local",

Create a hook script, for example with the following contents, and place it at ~/local/VREF/my_hook:

#!/bin/sh
if [ $GL_REPO != "gitolite-admin" ]; then
    echo "-----------------------------------------------------------"
    echo "You repository here: https://git.example.org/$GL_REPO/"
    echo "-----------------------------------------------------------"
fi

For Gitolite to pick up your changes, you need to recompile it:
gitolite compile