Not able to detect branch from Git post-receive hook

Question

I\'ve got a post receive hook setup on the remote repo that tries to determine the branch name of the incoming push as follows:

$branch = `git rev-parse --abbrev         


        

Answer 1

The post-receive hook gets the same data as the pre-receive and not as arguments, but from stdin. The following is sent for all refs:

oldRev (space) newRev (space) refName (Line feed)

You could parse out the ref name with this bash script:

while read oldrev newrev ref
do
    echo "$ref"
done