Run external tool before GIT commit in PHPStorm

Question

Our project uses gettext to allow for multiple languages. Further, there is a *.bat and *.sh file, which generates the current POT file both from the PHP files and Smarty templates.

Is there a way to configure PHPStorm to execute an external tool (for example the bat file), before doing a GIT commit? In the commit window, there is only the possibility to execute a tool after commit. However, after doing changes in the code, I would like to update the POT first, then commit the code.

Answer 1

That looks like the clean step of a content filter driver:

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The commit would trigger the clean script in order to modify the files, before the commit.

The clean script is:

• declared with git config filter.<filtername>.clean ./<filterscript>
• used in a .gitattributes file.