helveticafire / pep8-git-hook

Git pre-commit hook that checks for Python PEP8 style compliance.

PEP8 Git Commit Hook

This is a pre-commit hook for Git that checks the code to be committed for Python PEP8 style compliance. The hook will prevent the commit in case style violations are detected.

Installation:

1. Install the pep8 program: $ pip install pep8 or $ easy_install pep8
2. Run $ pep8 command to check that it insall correctly
3. Clone project $ git clone [e-mail]:helveticafire/pep8-git-hook.git
4. Add pre-commit to your python project folder

• Make a symbolic link from the pep8-git-hook location to the git project location with $ cd pep8-git-hook_project_location && ln -s pre-commit your_project/.git/hooks/pre-commit

5. Mark pre-commit executable: $ chmod +x your_project/.git/hooks/pre-commit

The hook can be overridden: $ git commit --no-verify

Currently, ignoring the following PEP8 code:

• E501 line too long (82 > 79 characters)

In case you want to modify the list of codes to ignore, edit the ignore_codes list in the pre-commit file.
If you want to select only specific codes to scan for, use the select_codes list.

This code was forked from https://gist.github.com/810399.