Skip GitHub hooks on push

Question

We are looking for a way to disable a GitHub webhook from the command line when pushing a rebase to prevent duplicate entries in Pivotal Tracker.

Has anyone implemented this before? It doesn't look like git push --no-verify will work as I believe the webhooks in GitHub are post-receive.

Answer 1

Assuming you're correct about your problem being the post-receive hook I don't think you'll be able to flag it off based on the git man page:

post-receive

This hook is invoked by git-receive-pack on the remote repository, which happens when a git push is done on a local repository. It executes on the remote repository once after all the refs have been updated.

This hook executes once for the receive operation. It takes no arguments, but gets the same information as the pre-receive hook does on its standard input.

This hook does not affect the outcome of git-receive-pack, as it is called after the real work is done.

This supersedes the post-update hook in that it gets both old and new values of all the refs in addition to their names.

Both standard output and standard error output are forwarded to git send-pack on the other end, so you can simply echo messages for the user.

The default post-receive hook is empty, but there is a sample script post-receive-email provided in the contrib/hooks directory in Git distribution, which implements sending commit emails.

Here's one way you might be able to do this. In cases where you want to skip the post-receive hook, use a custom method you've defined in bash that:

1. Moves .git/hooks/post-receive to some other file name
2. Does your push
3. Moves .git/hooks/some_other_file_name back to .git/hooks/post-receive