Question

I have a bare repo server-side, and I am able to successfully commit and push from my local machine. However, the post-receive hook is not running. Details:

• Using SSH as protocol
• I have renamed the standard “post-receive.sample” to “post-receive”
• This file has -rwxr-xr-x permissions
• The file is owned by the same user that owns the repo, which is the same SSH user that logs in and pushes
• The actual pushing goes fine; files are updated – it’s just the hook that does not run
• I tried putting echo "Some text" before and after the hook, but this is not shown (see: Post Commit Hook Not Running).
• Hook script is included below, although this appears not to be causing the problem
• Using git 1.7.0.4 on Ubuntu 10.04

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user@server:/home/repos/project1/hooks# cat post-receive
#!/bin/sh
echo "Hook is running..."
export GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/web/project1/www/
git checkout -f
rm -rf /home/web/project1/www/temp/

Answer 1

The issue was related to the mounting of the filesystem. The partition was mounted as noexec, and therefore no files could be executed. This caused the hook not to run. I removed the noexec flag and it now works just fine.