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How can I create a global pre-commit hook that is available for everyone in the team to use? Basically, I want that anytime someone clones the remote repository he should get this global pre-commit hook by default.
I came across this change default git hooks, Git commit hooks - global settings and this https://coderwall.com/p/jp7d5q where it suggests to create a template directory having common hooks and set init.templatedir to point to this directory. However this is useful only for setting default hooks for yourself on your own machine. How can the pre-commit hook be made available to entire team by default?
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Create a .pre-commit-config.yaml file within your project. This file contains the pre-commit hooks you want to run every time before you commit. It looks like this: pre-commit will look in those two repositories with the specified git tags for a file called .pre-commit-hooks.yaml.
pre-commit hooks are a mechanism of the version control system git. They let you execute code right before the commit. Confusingly, there is also a Python package called pre-commit which allows you to create and use pre-commit hooks with a way simpler interface. The Python package has a plugin-system to create git pre-commit hooks automatically.
You can use pre-commit to run this hook locally. Go to the test repository we created to test the hook. pre-commit try-repo is the command and the switch. ../pre-commit-test-hook is the path to your pre-commit-test-hook repository on your file system. This path depends on where you have created these repositories. test-hook is the ID of the hook.
There are autoformatters with pre-commit hooks for many languages: Prettier: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, GraphQL, and many more. Clang-format: C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, Protobuf, C# pyupgrade runs over your Python code and automatically changes old-style syntax to new-style syntax. Just have a look at some examples: Do you want it?
How can the
pre-commithook be made available to entire team by default?
It can not, as I explained in "Difference between pre-push and pre-receive hook in git?"
And from a security standpoint, that'd be really kind of scary - no one should have the ability to force me to execute certain scripts whenever I run certain git commands
So:
--template option of git clone.But in any case, remember that a git commit --no-verify would bypass the pre-commit hook anyway.
That is why a server-side hook is safer (as discussed in "Difference between pre-push and pre-receive hook in git?") and will catch all bad commits pushed to a blessed repo.
That is not say a pre-commit hook is useless: if you can convince the users to activate it, it will help catch error sooner, which is a good thing.
But it cannot be enforced "automatically".
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