{"id":243,"date":"2018-09-13T17:45:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T21:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ectropyarts.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2023-01-11T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T16:48:11","slug":"manually-trigger-a-post-receive-hook-for-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ectropyarts.com\/manually-trigger-a-post-receive-hook-for-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Manually trigger a git post-receive hook for testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using a post-receive hook is a good way to perform a scripted action each time new changes are pushed to a git repo. (If you have not yet set up a basic post-receive hook, consider consulting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ectropyarts.com\/use-git-with-just-a-shared-network-drive-no-git-server-required\/\">this article<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in adding more to your post-receive hook, you might want to have a quick way to test it, without adding &amp; pushing a bunch of test commits. We can trigger it manually with <a href=\"http:\/\/krisjordan.com\/essays\/setting-up-push-to-deploy-with-git\">this advice from Kris Jordan.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When you&#8217;re working on a post-receive hook, it&#8217;s annoying to muck up your project&#8217;s commit history and push each time you make a change. Luckily, because it&#8217;s just a script, we can fake it from the command-line.<\/p>\n<pre>cd ..\/remote\r\ngit log -2 --format=oneline --reverse\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>First, we need to get the IDs of our most recent 2 commits. 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