Git post-receive-email ：（提交）的未知类型

Question

I'm having an issue with Git's post-receive-email hook script. Here is what I did:

1. On my server, I initialized a bare repository using: git --bare init myrepo.git . My server's Git config file says core.bare = true
2. Did the setup using the guides for Git email for post receive
3. On my client, clones the repository using git clone URL . On my client, Git config is core.bare = false .
4. Did some work, added the new files, committed to the local Git
5. Pushed the changes to the remote repository using: git push origin master which issues the generated ref-ids for the commits done
6. But I do not receive emails; so tried to run the post-receive hook script on the server in hooks directory with ./post-receive <oldrev> <newrev> refs/heads/master

The following error is constantly returned:

Unknown type of update to c9c047af (commit)
no email generated

Any clues what could be wrong?

Answer 1

Although I used a distribution post-receive-email script, I found a strange bug in the script. Towards the end of post-receive-email in my version said:

prep_for_email $2 $3 $1 && PAGER= generate_email

which should be

prep_for_email $1 $2 $3 && PAGER= generate_email

The change resolved my manual call to post-receive <oldrev> <newrev> <refname> . I hope this helps others that may face it.