(In one of the projects that I'm working on) I suggested starting using git hook to run some validations before committing the changes to GitHub, and the boss said: "Great idea, all yours!"

I wasn't sure if I should be happy or sad because I had to implement the hooks...

I used to work with git hooks, but this was the first time I have to do it from scratch, so I read about the git hooks ( https://git-scm.com/docs/githooks ), and I focused on just one, the pre-commit.

Alright, so the hooks are scripts that run before or after some git action, but this can be a mess if your teammates use a different OS (Windows, Linux, or Mac) because some scripts won't work on Windows (like bash/sh script) or vice versa (like PowerShell scripts).

I had to find another solution, and I remembered that all my teammates have Python installed, and I thought: "Instead of creating our hooks, maybe I could find a python module to manage the hooks" and I found it!.

pre-commit is a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks, is easy to install/configure, and has several pre-created hooks.

Installation:

You can use brew or conda, but the best way is with pip:

pip install pre-commit

Configuration:

Create a .pre-commit-config.yaml in the root folder of your project and read the docs to know how to organize it.

This is an example:

fail_fast: false
repos:
-   repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
    rev: v3.2.0
    hooks:
    -   id: check-merge-conflict
    -   id: end-of-file-fixer
    -   id: trailing-whitespace

When your .pre-commit-config.yaml is ready then you can set up the git hooks with:

pre-commit install

And that's all, the next time you create a new commit, it will run the pre-commit hooks!!!

PS C:\Users\myProject> git commit -m "testing hooks"
Check for merge conflicts................................................Passed
Fix End of Files.........................................................Failed
- hook id: end-of-file-fixer
- exit code: 1
- files were modified by this hook

Fixing .pre-commit-config.yaml

Trim Trailing Whitespace.................................................Passed

Here is the link to the website: https://pre-commit.com/

And they already have some pre-created hooks, not only for Python, there are also for dockerfile, Javascript, go, JSON, XML, Perl, shell, etc: https://pre-commit.com/hooks.html