On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:55 PM brian m. carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 08:36:10PM -0500, Larry Martell wrote: > > Is there any way using a git hook to get info on the commit (id, > > message), put that in a file, and include that file in the commit? > > > > If I try that in a pre-commit hook I do not get the info on the > > current commit. I tried it in pre-receive but it does not seem to get > > executed at all. > > You cannot include a file in the commit with that commit's ID. > > The object ID of a commit is based on the data it contains, which is in > turn based on the data in its top-level tree, which is in turn based on > the data in all of its trees and blobs. If you add or change a file in a > commit (or the message of that commit), you necessarily result in that > commit having a different object ID. This is by design and is valuable > for checking the integrity of the history. > > Furthermore, the hooks for a commit are designed for checking and > notification, not for editing the commit, with the exception of the > commit message hooks, which are designed only for editing the commit > message, not the contents. > > The pre-receive hook runs on the server side, so if you aren't running > it there, then it won't get called at all.
Thanks for the reply. Any suggestions on how to achieve what I want to do? The use case is that we want to have a file that is part of the install that has certain info (commit id, date of commit, commit message, etc.). and we'd like that to be generated automatically.
