Git hooks is a nice way to do extend git capabilities.
I decided to create some of them which helps in different day-to-day situations
I have a repository http://bitbucket.org/mnaoumov/githooks/ where you can get all of them.
So far two hooks are implemented which handles the situation when you do pull from a repository having some local commits and this ends up with ugly merge commit such as
Merge branch ‘test_merge_pull’ of ssh://bitbucket.org/mnaoumov/githooks into test_merge_pull
These commits make git history non-linear and difficult to read.
My hooks handle this situation showing the dialog
Unfortunately git does not have pre-merge hooks and that is why I had to use post-merge and then rollback the changes. If merge had conflicts the only hook is applied is after you fix the conflicts and do commit. But in this case post-merge is not called and I have to use post-commit instead.
TODO list for other Hooks
-
You can often have different releases branches such as release.1.0, release.2.0 and master for a future release.
When you make some change in release.1.0 you should merge it with release.2.0 and then release.2.0 with master.
My idea is to write a hook which will allow only such merges and block all others.
-
Hook which allow rebase only local branches and block rebase of already published branches
-
Hook which will block incorrect ‘hard reset’ pushes (see for more details). Unfortunately git does not have no pre-push hooks which can be used on a client-side so we have to have a server-side hook.
-
Hook that will check that all your commit messages prefixed with corresponding TFS work item ID