is there a hack for fully functional cross-platform shebang line?

Question

Problem: apparently the scripts in the .git/hooks directory depend on the filename matching one of:

post-commit
pre-commit
pre-rebase

etc ...

No concept of "file extension" is required because the "shebang line" indicates how the file should run, as long as it is executable and running on your Linux box.

The problem is when you have some scripts that you want to run on a Windows box.

Question: Is there a way to execute the hook scripts that can be understood on a Windows machine?

Answer 1

I know I'm way behind on this, but I have a solution for you. If you're using python, add ".py" to the PATHEXT environment variable (Control Panel, System, Advanced, Environment Variables). Likewise for your specific scripting language. Then name the hooks post-commit.py, pre-commit.py, etc. When a program asks Windows to execute the "post-commit" file in a certain directory, Windows will look through PATHEXT in order until it finds a file matching "post-commit.extension", which it will then execute. I did this a long time ago with svn hooks on Windows.