Run a script after a push to your private repo

You already have your private repository set up, and now you want that when you upload something, i.e. when you push, a script gets executed.

Oh, no! We are trapped by Big Code, and we’ll have to upload our stuff to GitHub just to use GitHub Actions, pay them, hand them over our intellectual property, and our firstborn!

No, hell no.

Git has been around for ages, and it’s ready for this. Don’t get caught up in the trend.

Git hooks

For this and many other things, Git hooks exist.

You could now head over to the Git hooks documentation and then come back to my shelter. I’ll be waiting with open arms.

Or keep reading.

In any case, let’s continue.

The only thing we want to do is run a script when a push is made to the repo, and you'll be amazed at how simple it is to do this. Remember that Big Code wants to charge you for this and take your code!

Go to the hooks folder of the bare repo. What bare repo, you ask? I explain that in Host your own private repository

There, create a file named post-receive and grant it execution permissions. When a push is done to the repo, it will be executed, receiving a list of Git references from STDIN.

That's it. Done.

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