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Git Hooks: How to Make Friends

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April 14, 2012
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Transcript

  1. by Joseph Hsu GIT HOOKS HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS

  2. GIT HOOKS by Joseph Hsu HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS

  3. @JHSU Joe Hsu

  4. We all use git (right?)

  5. DVCS - distributed version control system

  6. None
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  9. I wish I could automate...

  10. too lazy to...

  11. Git hooks

  12. Git hooks http://book.git-scm.com/5_git_hooks.html Hooks are little scripts you can place

    in $GIT_DIR/ hooks directory to trigger action at certain points.

  13. post-commit no parameters cannot affect the outcome of git-commit

  14. pre-commit run tests, linting

  15. post-receive # <oldrev> <newrev> <refname>

  16. and more...

  17. setup

  18. where? project .git/hooks new repos /usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/

  19. chmod +x

  20. post-hook What happens after depends on exit status, exit of

    non-zero leaves dirty state

  21. pre-commit #!/usr/bin/env bash exit 1

  22. #!/usr/bin/env bash git reset HEAD^ --hard post-commit

  23. Useful examples

  24. cowsay commit-msg * WOOF * * WOOF *

  25. fixing bugs, BRO commit-msg

  26. git commit -m “stuff” commit-msg

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  30. AlTeRnAtInG cAsE commit-msg

  31. https://github.com/jhsu/githooks

  32. Thanks.