When I got repeated reviews about code not passing flake8 checking bob mentioned about using hooks. It was then a new term to me. After checking a couple of webpages I found it very interesting. I wrote a git pre-commit-hook using shell scripting.My script checks two case
1: Check if the current branch is a master branch.
2: Check for python file for checking python syntax errors
What are git hooks?
git can trigger some import actions before you perform an important function like commit, rebase etc. A pre-commit hook is triggered before a commit occurs. Git hooks are stored in hooks directory of .git
Step 1
cd .git/hooks
vi pre- commit
Step 2: Copy the code
https://gist.github.com/tessie/53aa0ecde3b5d930a527
(git diff --cached --name-only
git diff–cached is used to find the difference between latest commit and files added for staging.
–name-only list only names of the that have changed.
(git diff --cached --name-only --diff-filter=ACM | grep -e '\.py$'
This list all the python files.
flake8 $file --ignore=E501
This ignores E501(line too long).
Step3: Make the file executable
chmod +x pre-commit-hook
And that’s it. Now every time when you commit your code, git will run flake8 for you. Also you may not fear about accidentally committing your master branch.
tessie 