Needed to be checked based only on the filename. Some of the sample programs people showed me decided which files Here is the hook, which, I should say up front, I have not yet tried Script that will have to be replaced with Perl when it gets bigger. Into automatic shell scripting mode and now I have yet another shell Sample pre-commit hook was written in shell and when I saw it I went Instead or in some equivalently good language like Python. Shell, even though I swore years ago to stop writing shell scripts.Įverything that I want to write in shell should be written in Perl I made one mistake right off the bat: I wrote the hook in Bourne It gets run when you try to make a commit, and the commit isĪborted if the hook exits with a nonzero status. Unlike some of the git hooks, the pre-commit hook is very simple to Try to implement a pre-commit hook to check syntax. Suggested that it should be part of the CI system, or even theĭeployment system, but I don't control those, and anyway it is muchīetter to catch this sort of thing as early as possible. Natural place to put an automatic syntax check.

Program that will be run every time you attempt a commit, and whichĬan abort the commit if it doesn't like what it sees. Git has a “pre-commit hook” feature, which means that you can set up a I have been on Twitter Vacation for months and have no current (By the way, please don't try to contact me on Twitter. Wrote to point out to me that this is the sort of thing one should The script for syntax errors before committing it, and several people I observed that I should have remembered to check Syntax error on a cron script, and a co-worker had to fix it on Over the past couple of days I've written about how I committed a Village of Melrose Park_ The Master of the Pecos River returns Hieroglyphic monkeys holding stuff Egyptian crocodile hieroglyphs in Unicode More notes about pain as a game mechanic Two words, two lies (again) The pillar box war Water, polo, and water polo in Russian Recent addenda to articles 202304: Inappropriate baseball team names and anagrams in Russian Notes on rarely-seen game mechanicsĪutomatically checking for syntax errors with Git's pre-commit hook Math SE report 2023-05: Why does this phrase sound so threatening? More about _Cozzi v. The Universe of Discourse : Automatically checking for syntax errors with Git's pre-commit hook The Universe of Discourse

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