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-git-hooks - A tool to manage project, user, and global Git hooks for multiple git repositories.
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-git-hooks lets hooks be installed inside git repositories, users home directory, and globally. When a hook is called by git, git-hooks will check each of these locations for the hooks to run.
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-Install
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-Add git-hooks to your PATH environment variable so 'git hooks' can be run.
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-Run 'git hooks --install' Inside a git project to change that projects git hooks to use git-hooks hooks. 'git hooks --uninstall' can be run at any time to go back to the old hooks that were installed before (typically the default which does nothing).
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-Run 'git hooks --installglobal' to force any new git repository or any git repository you clone to have a reminders to install git hooksi. (It can't be on by default for security reasons of course)
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-Overview
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-Hooks can be very powerful and useful. Some common hooks include:
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-- Spell check the commit message.
-- Check that the code builds.
-- Verify that any new files contain a copyright with the current year in it.
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-Hooks can be very project specific such as:
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-- Verify that the project still builds
-- Verify that autotests matching the modified files still pass with no errors.
-- Pre-populate the commit message with the 'standard' format.
-- Verify that any new code follows the 'standard' coding style.
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-or very specific to one person such as:
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-- Don't allow a push to a remote repository after 1am in case I break something and will be asleep.
-- Don't let me commit between 9-5 for projects in ~/personal/ as I shouldn't be working on them during work hours.
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-For more details on the different Git hooks that can be installed checkout the online documentation at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/githooks.html
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-Locations
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-git-hooks provide a way to manage and share your hooks by allowing for the installation of hooks in three locations:
- - User hooks that are installed in ~/.git_hooks/
- - Project hooks that are installed in the git_hooks directory inside of each project.
- - Global hooks that are specified with the hooks.global configuration option.
- The contrib directory includes a number of useful hooks and can be set by doing the following:
- git config --global hooks.global $PWD/contrib/
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-Multiple global hooks directories can be specified by using a space between each path.
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-Creating hooks
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-To keep things organized git-hooks looks for scripts in sub directories named after the git hook name. For example this project has the following pre-commit script in the following location:
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-git_hooks/pre-commit/bsd
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-When you run 'git hooks' with no arguments it will list all of the hooks installed on the system. It will run the hooks with the --about argument to generate the description that is shown. Checkout the hooks in contrib for some examples.
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