Force git to run post-receive hook, even if everything is “up-to-date”

Question

How do I force git to run a post-receive hook on a server even if I don\'t have a new commit to push?

Background

I use git to aut

Answer 1

I made a bash function to do this. It assumes that you have ssh access can ~/.ssh/config set accordingly. The default remote is origin

kick-git() {
    remote="${1:-origin}"
    ssh $(echo $(git remote get-url "$remote")/hooks/post-receive | tr ':' ' ')
}

Source and run kick-git [remote]