I want to warn a user if their code includes a certain string and alert people via email.
Right now I'm using a post-receive hook because the detection needs to be done on the server side.
I am updating a server-side repository and running something like git diff-tree -r --name-only --no-commit-id $2 | xargs grep foo
to detect bad string "foo."
Problems with this approach:
- I don't like maintaining and entire working version of the repository server-side
- It scans the entire file, not just the changes. edit I solved this problem replacing the above with:
git show $2 | grep ^+ ...
Is there a better way to do this?