archf / git-hooks

a shell script to manage user git hooks

git-hooks

A simple script to manage your hooks.

Why do I need this?

Rerunning git init within an existing git repository will result in only git 'templatedir' new hooks actually missing in .git/hooks to be added. Thus, exising hooks are not updated!

You would have to manually delete a file to force a new copy into the git repository. This script streamline this process.

How does it work!

In this order

1. Lookup your .gitconfig for the templatedir parameter. You can retreive current value using git config --global init.templatedir command. If templatedir does exist, it will then look for hooks in <templatedir>/hooks/*
2. For each file:

• a backup will be done in current repository .git/hooks.old if it already exists in .git/hooks
• file .git/hooks/ is updated

Usage

run git hooks to show detected hooks in your configured templatedir as well as the help menu.

GIT HOOKS
  A custom git command to manage a git repository hooks.
  See https://github.com/archf/git-hooks.

USAGE
  git hooks [OPTIONS] CMD

OPTIONS
  -h|--help   Show this help menu.
  -f|--force  Force hook update.

CMD
  show        List git 'templatedir' available hooks.
  install     Install hooks found inside git 'templatedir' in repository.
              Current hooks are backed up to '.git/hooks.old'. If the hook is
              already found in '.git/hooks.old' it will be skipped unless you
              delete it manually or use the --force option.
  restore     Restore previous set of hooks from '.git/hooks.old'.
  help        Show this help menu.

FAQ

How to locate your current 'templatedir'?

git config --global init.templatedir

Installation

Clone this repository somewhere and put this script in your PATH.

git clone [e-mail]:archf/git-hooks.git

Personally I like to install those kind of scripts in ~/bin whilst ~/bin is in your PATH.

Quickly add a symlink in ~/bin:

make install