Pre-Commit

Used for maintaining Git hooks. Must be installed globally on the respective system. As it is written in Python, for example pipx can be used to install it.

• pre-commit.com
• github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit

Whenever this repository is initially cloned, the following should be executed:

pre-commit install --install-hooks
pre-commit install --install-hooks --hook-type commit-msg

Pre-commit should now run on every commit. It is also used in GitHub Actions.

Pre-commit is configured via .pre-commit-config.yaml.

Housekeeping

Update hooks

pre-commit autoupdate

Cheat Sheet

Run pre-commit against all files

pre-commit run -a

Run specific hook against all files

pre-commit run -a <hook>