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I have created a pre-push file and saved it into the .git/hooks folder. What seems to be going on is that the push is still making the call to the server even though I put in an echo statement and an exit 1 call. When I perform a git push call I can see the server message then my echo statement.

Shouldn't the push process stop immediately and not establish a connection to the remote server if the first line of the pre-push file is exit 1?

What am I missing here on this hook? The only thing that I would expect to see is my Hello there message and nothing else.

echo "Hello there" exit 1
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Okay, I don't have the complete answer but this is what I have figured out.

Despite getting the banner message from the remote server the pre-push does stop the process from pushing to the server upon exit 1. It is misleading only because I am seeing the banner message but it is working.

Something should be documented in the git docs on why a connection is established at all for a pre-push before the push has been given the go ahead.

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I agree that the documentation should be improved. It's quite necessary to establish the connection first, though, and a bit of thought will immediately show why: the pre-push hook gets not only the foreign Git's ref-name, it also gets the corresponding hash ID. The only entity that has that information—at least, correct information—is the foreign Git itself. So there must be a connection established, with data flowing, at this point.

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