J's Git Hooks

This is just a small collection of git hooks that I like to use along with a simple infrastructure for enabling and disabling them.

Creating Hooks

To create a new hook:

1. create a directory for the hook based on the hook event name (i.e. a post-checkout hook would go into a post-checkout.d directory).

2. set up a symlink from the shared-hook script to the hook event name.

3. place your hook into the hook directory and make sure it's executable.

Enabling and Disabling Hooks

Hooks can be enabled and disabled either by setting the executable bit on the hooks themselves and by using your git config to enable the infrastructure itself.

In your git config files, you can enable the master hook event using the following configuration settings:

[hooks "hook-event-name"]
  enabled = true

This enables the actual event itself, i.e. post-checkout. You can then enable or disable individual hook scripts thusly:

[hooks "post-checkout"]
  enabled = true
  update-submodules-rb = true

The update-submodules-rb line enables the post-checkout.d/update-submodules.rb script. Script names are munged to replace any . characters with - characters so as to not act wonky with git's configuration parser.

License

This collection of git hooks and the infrastructure and all that is covered under the MIT license. See the MIT-LICENSE file for details.