From 536997d6d30467e2e9e401cca2cf6e7daa499665 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin C Meyer Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:54:02 -0400 Subject: Mention the envvar GIT_HOOKS_VERBOSE to help debug hooks that exit with non-zero, but don't output an error Signed-off-by: Benjamin C Meyer --- README | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index dbd0573..3cd593d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -53,3 +53,9 @@ git_hooks/pre-commit/bsd When you run 'git hooks' with no arguments it will list all of the hooks installed on the system. It will run the hooks with the --about argument to generate the description that is shown. Checkout the hooks in contrib for some examples. +************************************ +Debugging + +When GIT_HOOKS_VERBOSE is set git-hooks will output each hook as it is run so you can trouble shoot hooks that don't report errors, but exit with non-zero. + +GIT_HOOKS_VERBOSE=1 git commit -- cgit v1.2.3