piku installs an agent on the remote machine (piku.py) which itself also provides the support for making that machine a git remote. There is no commit hook on

piku installs an agent on the remote machine (piku.py) which itself also provides the support for making that machine a git remote. There is no commit hook on the local machine. On the local machine, you simply have a shim named "piku" which is essentially running "ssh remote /path/to/piku.py $@" to control the remote machine.