git-hooks - A tool to manage Git hooks for multiple git repositories. Hooks can be very powerful and useful. Some hooks that can be found include: - Spell check the commit message. - Check that the code builds. - Verify that any new files contain a copyright with the current year in it. Hooks can also be very project specific such as: - Verify that any new code follows the coding style (this is always different) or very people specific such as: - Don't allow me to push after 1am in case I break something. - Don't let me commit between 9-5 for projects in ~/personal/ as I shouldn't be working on them. 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 of each project - Global hooks that are specified with the environment variable GLOBAL_GIT_HOOKS. When GLOBAL_GIT_HOOKS is not set it defaults to the git-hooks /contrib/ folder. Multiple global hooks directories can be specified by using a space between them. -- Install Clone the git-hooks repository and add it to your path. Inside a project's directory run 'git hooks --install' to change that projects git hooks (which defaults to doing nothing) to use git-hooks hooks.