[vtk-developers] pulling hooks

[David Doria]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:27 PM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:00 PM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a VTK branch on github. When I tried to push to it, I got this:
>>
>> Paste the following commands into a shell:
>>  cd "/home/doriad/src/GraphConversions/.git/hooks"
>>  git init
>>  git pull .. remotes/origin/hooks
>>  cd ../..
>>
>> When I tried to do that, I got:
>>
>> [doriad at localhost hooks]$ git pull .. remote/origin/hooks
>> fatal: Couldn't find remote ref remote/origin/hooks
>> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>>
>> I suspect this is because origin is github not vtk.org. I tried a few
>> this like this:
>>
>> git pull git://vtk.org/VTK.git git://vtk.org/VTK.git/remotes/origin/hooks
>>
>> but they all gave the same error. Can someone explain how to get the
>> hooks into a branch that is not from vtk.org?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David
>>
>
> I guess the problem is that the 'hooks' branch is automatically
> downloaded when one clones VTK.git (so if you clone from github, it is
> not included). How would you point directly to the hooks branch in the
> pull command?
>
> Something like this:
> git pull .. git://vtk.org/VTK.git/hooks
>
> (but that doesn't work)
>
> David
>

Brad explained that it is as easy as

it pull git://public.kitware.com/<repo>.git hooks

He added it to the wiki here (Direct pull):
http://www.itk.org/Wiki/Git/Hooks#Setup

Thanks Brad,

David