Problems with remote refs containing slashes

Author: scopCreated Jul 30, 2026Updated Jul 30, 2026

Labelsbug

Description

Lefthook config from remotes where ref contains slashes fail to checkout properly, leading to

refetch happening every time, no matter the config
scripts from remote not working

`lefthook.yml`

yaml

remotes:
  - git_url: https://github.com/scop/lefthook-test.git
    ref: feat/test-branch
    refetch_frequency: 24h

Commands to reproduce

Full reproducer repo at https://github.com/scop/lefthook-test/tree/feat/test-branch, copying here

bash

$ lefthook run --verbose pre-commit 
│  [lefthook] git: git version       
│             out: git version 2.53.0
│                                    
│  [lefthook] git: git rev-parse --path-format=absolute --show-toplevel --git-path hooks --git-path info --git-dir
│             out: /tmp/tmp.jTQCBYVFuF                                                                            
│                  /tmp/tmp.jTQCBYVFuF/.git/hooks                                                                 
│                  /tmp/tmp.jTQCBYVFuF/.git/info                                                                  
│                  /tmp/tmp.jTQCBYVFuF/.git                                                                       
│                                                                                                                 
│  loading config:  /tmp/tmp.jTQCBYVFuF/lefthook.yaml
│  Merging remote config: https://github.com/scop/lefthook-test.git: /tmp/tmp.jTQCBYVFuF/.git/info/lefthook-remotes/lefthook-test-feat/test-branch/lefthook.yml
╭──────────────────────────────────────────╮
│  lefthook  v2.1.10   hook:  pre-commit │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────╯
│  Cloning remote config repository: /tmp/tmp.jTQCBYVFuF/.git/info/lefthook-remotes/lefthook-test-feat/test-branch/lefthook-test-feat/test-branch
│  [lefthook] git: git diff --name-only --cached --diff-filter=ACMR
│                                                                  
│  [lefthook] git: git diff --name-only --cached --diff-filter=ACMRD
│                                                                   
│  [lefthook] git: git status --short --porcelain -z
│             out: ?? lefthook.yaml                 
│                                                   
│  [lefthook] git: git -C /tmp/tmp.jTQCBYVFuF/.git/info/lefthook-remotes clone --quiet --origin origin --depth 1 --branch feat/test-branch https://github.com/scop/lefthook-test.git lefthook-test-feat/test-branch
│                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
│  [lefthook] git: git -C /tmp/tmp.jTQCBYVFuF/.git/info/lefthook-remotes/lefthook-test-feat/test-branch fetch --quiet --depth 1 origin -- feat/test-branch
│                                                                                                                                                         
│  [lefthook] git: git -C /tmp/tmp.jTQCBYVFuF/.git/info/lefthook-remotes/lefthook-test-feat/test-branch checkout FETCH_HEAD
│                                                                                                                          
│  Reloading config...
│  Merging remote config: https://github.com/scop/lefthook-test.git: /tmp/tmp.jTQCBYVFuF/.git/info/lefthook-remotes/lefthook-test-feat/test-branch/lefthook.yml
│  Removing stale remote:  /tmp/tmp.jTQCBYVFuF/.git/info/lefthook-remotes/lefthook-test-feat
│  hello (skip) no matching staged files
│  [lefthook] script doesn't exist: /tmp/tmp.jTQCBYVFuF/.lefthook/pre-commit/hello.sh
│  [lefthook] script doesn't exist: /tmp/tmp.jTQCBYVFuF/.lefthook-local/pre-commit/hello.sh
│  [lefthook] script doesn't exist: /tmp/tmp.jTQCBYVFuF/.config/lefthook/pre-commit/hello.sh
│  [lefthook] script doesn't exist: /tmp/tmp.jTQCBYVFuF/.config/lefthook-local/pre-commit/hello.sh
│  [lefthook] script doesn't exist: /tmp/tmp.jTQCBYVFuF/.git/info/lefthook-remotes/lefthook-test-feat/test-branch/.lefthook/pre-commit/hello.sh
│  script (skip) script does not exist: hello.sh
  ────────────────────────────────────
summary: (done in 0.00 seconds)
 script: script does not exist: hello.sh (0.00 seconds)

Lefthook version

2.1.10

Possible solution

Improve the way the dir for a remote is derived from the git_url and ref. Some alternatives discussed in https://github.com/evilmartians/lefthook/issues/1284 which deals with other problems caused by the current way.

Source: evilmartians/lefthook

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