We don't actually use these va_list based variants of run_command
anymore.  I'm removing them before I make further improvements.
Signed-off-by: NShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Currently the update hook invoked by receive-pack has its stdin
connected to the pushing client.  The hook shouldn't attempt to
read from this stream, and doing so may consume data that was
meant for receive-pack.  Instead we should give the update hook
/dev/null as its stdin, ensuring that it always receives EOF and
doesn't disrupt the protocol if it attempts to read any data.

The post-update hook is similar, as it gets invoked with /dev/null
on stdin to prevent the hook from reading data from the client.
Previously we had invoked it with stdout also connected to /dev/null,
throwing away anything on stdout, to prevent client protocol errors.
Instead we should redirect stdout to stderr, like we do with the
update hook.
Signed-off-by: NShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

If an update hook outputs to stdout then that output will be sent
back over the wire to the push client as though it were part of
the git protocol.  This tends to cause protocol errors on the
client end of the connection, as the hook output is not expected
in that context.  Most hook developers work around this by making
sure their hook outputs everything to stderr.

But hooks shouldn't need to perform such special behavior.  Instead
we can just dup stderr to stdout prior to invoking the update hook.
Signed-off-by: NShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

The argc parameter is never used by the run_command_v family of
functions.  Instead they require that the passed argv[] be NULL
terminated so they can rely on the operating system's execvp
function to correctly pass the arguments to the new process.

Making the caller pass the argc is just confusing, as the caller
could be mislead into believing that the argc might take precendece
over the argv, or that the argv does not need to be NULL terminated.
So goodbye argc.  Don't come back.
Signed-off-by: NShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Mark Wooding noticed there was a type mismatch warning in git.c; this
patch does things slightly differently (mostly tightening const) and
was what I was holding onto, waiting for the setup-revisions change
to be merged into the master branch.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

The git suite may not be in PATH (and thus programs such as
git-send-pack could not exec git-rev-list).  Thus there is a need for
logic that will locate these programs.  Modifying PATH is not
desirable as it result in behavior differing from the user's
intentions, as we may end up prepending "/usr/bin" to PATH.

- git C programs will use exec*_git_cmd() APIs to exec sub-commands.
- exec*_git_cmd() will execute a git program by searching for it in
  the following directories:
	1. --exec-path (as used by "git")
	2. The GIT_EXEC_PATH environment variable.
	3. $(gitexecdir) as set in Makefile (default value $(bindir)).
- git wrapper will modify PATH as before to enable shell scripts to
  invoke "git-foo" commands.

Ideally, shell scripts should use the git wrapper to become independent
of PATH, and then modifying PATH will not be necessary.

[jc: with minor updates after a brief review.]
Signed-off-by: NMichal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

When calling post-update hook, don't leave stdin and stdout connected to
the pushing connection.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

The earlier one conflated update and post-update hooks for no
good reason.  Correct that ugly hack.  Now post-update hooks
will take the list of successfully updated refs.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Just before updating a ref,

    $GIT_DIR/hooks/update refname old-sha1 new-sha1

is called if executable.  The hook can decline the ref to be
updated by exiting with a non-zero status, or allow it to be
updated by exiting with a zero status.  The mechanism also
allows e.g sending of a mail with pushed commits on the remote
repository.

Documentation update with an example hook is included.

jc: The credits of the basic idea and initial implementation go
to Josef, but I ended up rewriting major parts of his patch, so
bugs are all mine.  Also I changed the semantics for the hook
from his original version (which were post-update hook) so that
the hook can optionally decline to update the ref, and also can
be used to implement the overall cleanups.  The latter was
primarily to implement a suggestion from Linus that calling
update-server-info should be made optional.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>