绕过git服务器端钩子

Question

When I try to push commits made by other people, git server rejects the commits with pre-receive hook declined:

expected committer name 'John' but found 'Jill'

Is there a way to bypass this server side hook without asking repo admin to change policy?

I don't want to take credit for commits that other people have made. Also, this is a result of moving files with their histories from one repo to another. I want to preserve said history.

Answer 1

Is there a way to bypass [a] server side hook without asking repo admin to change policy?

Not generally, no. The specifics depend on the hook. For instance, it's easy to write a server-side hook that rejects commits with the word fnord in the log message unless the word slack! (complete with exclamation point) also appears somewhere in the log message. Hence it's possible that your server-side hook will allow a different committer-name if some other item is also set some specific way.

That said, though:

I don't want to take credit for commits that other people have made.

The committer in a commit is, deliberately, not the author of the commit. Every commit in git has two separate users—name, email address, and date—attached. One is the commit's author and the other is the committer . Submitting a commit with you as the committer, and someone else as the author, is the standard way of declaring that the someone-else is the author of that commit, and you merely put it into the repository.