I'm fairly new to the Git world after moving from SVN recently and I'm trying to understand the post-receive hook.
Hopefully I'm correct in saying that this is a server-side hook but how would I use the post-receive hook to run a command client-side or is there another hook to achieve this?
Eg.
post-receive hook runs on server. Sends command to client/committer and that command runs on their computer (eg. echo Commit received.)
And sorry if I got this all completely wrong - I'm new to Git.
I'm no expert on git hooks as I'm just learning to use them myself, but I would recommend reading this for some background/context on the hooks:
http://git-scm.com/book/en/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks
In answer to your specific question, you wouldn't use a post-receive hook to run a command on the client side, you would instead use one of the client side hooks like:
post-commit
which would be I believe the client side equivalent of post-receive (i.e. after the entire commit process has completed).