Git Hook Examples

This is a collection of githooks, which is a standard feature of git. Usually, the hooks are located under .git/hooks of your project and they all carry the file ending .sample, which deactivates them. Simply removing the file ending, actives them. You can hook into various lifecycle events of your typical git workflow, like:

• commit-msg
• pre-commit
• pre-push

This allows for a bunch of options, incl.:

• linting your code
• checking for specific ids in the commit message
• preventing unformatted commit messages

The files in this repository each contain multiple examples and you can just remove/comment those that you don't want to use.

Configure the hooks directory

You can easily re-configure the directory that your hooks live in, by running the following command:

git config --local core.hooksPath .githooks/

This moves the hooks directory to .githooks (same level as your .git folder) only for this very repository.