Git Hooks

Git Hooks is a flexible and powerful tool for managing and executing Git hooks across multiple levels of your development environment. It allows for global, local repository-specific, and standard Git hook configurations, providing a hierarchical approach to Git hook management.

Features

• Configure global Git hooks in ~/.git-hooks
• Support for local repository-specific hooks in $GIT_DIR/.git-hooks
• Backwards compatibility with standard Git hooks
• Hierarchical execution of hooks (global → local → standard)
• Easy setup of specific hooks (e.g., gitleaks for pre-commit)

Installation

To install Git Hooks, you can use Go's install command:

go install github.com/lvrach/git-hooks@latest

This command will download the latest version of Git Hooks, compile it, and install the binary in your $GOPATH/bin directory. Make sure your $GOPATH/bin is in your system's PATH to run git-hooks from any location.

If you haven't set GOPATH, the binary will typically be installed in $HOME/go/bin on Unix systems or %USERPROFILE%\go\bin on Windows.

Configuration

To configure Git to use Git Hooks:

git-hooks config

This command will:

• Create the ~/.git-hooks directory
• Set up scripts for all Git hook types in this directory
• Configure Git to use this directory for hooks

Usage

Running Hooks

Once configured, Git Hooks will automatically handle Git hooks. When Git triggers a hook, it will run the corresponding script in ~/.git-hooks, which in turn calls git-hooks hook <hook-name>.

Adding Supported Hooks

To set up supported hooks, use the add command. For example, to set up the gitleaks pre-commit hook:

git-hooks add gitleaks

This will create a pre-commit hook on a global level that runs gitleaks to check for sensitive information in your commits.

Custom Hook Scripts

You can add custom hook scripts in the following locations:

1. Global hooks: ~/.git-hooks/<hook-name>.d/
2. Local repository hooks: $GIT_DIR/.git-hooks/<hook-name>.d/

These scripts will be executed in order when the corresponding hook is triggered.

Hook Execution Order

When a Git hook is triggered, Git Hooks executes hooks in the following order:

1. Global hooks in ~/.git-hooks/<hook-name>.d/
2. Local repository hooks in $GIT_DIR/.git-hooks/<hook-name>.d/
3. Standard Git hook in $GIT_DIR/hooks/<hook-name>