pre-commit

We run pre-commit with GitHub Actions so installation on your local machine is currently optional.

The pre-commit configuration file is in the repository root. Before you can run the hooks, you need to have pre-commit installed.

The hooks run when running git commit and also from the command line with pre-commit. Some of the hooks will auto fix the code after the hooks fail whilst most will print error messages from the linters. If a hook fails the overall commit will fail, and you will need to fix the issues or problems and git add and git commit again. On git commit the hooks will run mostly only against modified files so if you want to test all hooks against all files and when you are adding a new hook you should always run:

pre-commit run --all-files

Sometimes you might need to skip a hook to commit because the hook is stopping you from committing or your computer might not have all the installation requirements for all the hooks. The SKIP variable is comma separated for two or more hooks:

SKIP=typos git commit -m "foo"

The same applies when running pre-commit:

SKIP=typos pre-commit run --all-files

Occasionally you can have more serious problems when using pre-commit with git commit. You can use --no-verify to commit and stop pre-commit from checking the hooks. For example:

git commit --no-verify -m "foo"

If you just want to run one hook for example just run the markdownlint hook:

pre-commit run markdownlint --all-files

We have a Makefile in the repository root which has three pre-commit convenience commands.

For example, you can run the following to set up pre-commit to run before each commit

make checkinstall