在git checkout / pull上触发rsync

Question

My question may be naive but I can't figure it out...

Can I trigger an rsync or more generally a custom script, on a local repository when git commands are executed ? I tried looking into hooks but I'm not quite sure if these are supposed to/can be used in this case.

I also thought I should simply use git aliases to do these, but I am not sure what is dumb, stupid or idiot among my ideas.

Answer 1

I would say git hooks are the best way to solve that task, because they were introduced for doing stuff like that:

"Hooks are little scripts you can place in $GIT_DIR/hooks directory to trigger action at certain points." - from man githooks

Also, if you - or anybody else - would like to change the git post-commit -behaviour, i'd bet he'll have a first look into the $GIT_DIR/hooks/ -directory.

But be aware that 3rd-party tools (like GUIs) may use an internal git implementation (like JGIT) which may unfortunately not call hooks!