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gitserver-sidepre-commit-hook
Francisco Rangel
Francisco Rangel

Reputation: 139

Setting pre-commit-hook server side

Is it possible to set up pre-commit-hooks in the server repo and have them download to the clients when the repo is cloned?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4604

Answers (1)

msanford
msanford

Reputation: 12227

From git-scm:

The hooks are all stored in the hooks subdirectory of the Git directory. In most projects, that’s .git/hooks.

Recall that .git/ is managed locally.

So, no, there is no programmatic way using only git to force a repository to install hooks when it is cloned.

That said, a common practice is to bundle hooks into a folder like hooks/ within your repository, and then either

  • explain how to install them in the README, or
  • provide a script which will install them after cloning that the user has to run manually.

If you have rules you wish to validate, which you could use to smoke-test if someone has used a hook, you can install pre-receive hook in your remote.

For example, if you have a pre-commit hook that prepends a branch identifier to commit messages, you could check in a pre-recieve hook (actually on the 'server') that commit messages start with a branch identifier.

Upvotes: 2

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