NAME

githook-perltidy - run perltidy and podtidy before Git commits

VERSION

0.11.11_2 (2018-07-27)

SYNOPSIS

    githook-perltidy COMMAND [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION

githook-perltidy is a script designed to run from a Git pre-commit hook. It ensures that your Perl and POD files are always cleanly commited by running perltidy (Perl::Tidy) and podtidy (Pod::Tidy) on them.

This script is is efficient: it only modifies files that are being committed and not every file in your repository. It also tries its hardest to be safe: tidying is performed in a temporary location so that your own working files are not left in a bad state in the event of failure.

Repository Setup

Before you can use githook-perltidy you need to make sure everyone working on your code uses the the same Perl::Tidy and Pod::Tidy options:

    $ perltidy -b -w -dop | grep -v dump-options > .perltidyrc
    $ echo '--columns 72' > .podtidy-opts
    $ echo '^\.perltidyrc' >> MANIFEST.SKIP
    $ echo '^\.podtidy-ops' >> MANIFEST.SKIP
    $ git add .perltidyrc .podtidy-opts MANIFEST.SKIP
    $ git commit -m 'githook-perltidy support' && git push

Sweeter Tidying

You may prefer to tidy with Perl::Tidy::Sweetened instead of plain Perl::Tidy. To enable that you commit a .perltidyrc.sweetened file instead of .perltidyrc. githook-perltidy does not depend on Perl::Tidy::Sweetened directly so you will want to add that as an explicit "develop" dependency in your cpanfile, Makefile.PL or Build.PL.

Critical Checks

You may additionally wish to have Perl::Critic run against your commits. To enable that you simply commit a .perlcriticrc file to the repository. githook-perltidy does not depend on Perl::Critic directly so you will want to add that as an explicit "develop" dependency in your cpanfile, Makefile.PL or Build.PL.

README from POD

githook-perltidy also has an automatic README-from-POD feature. To enable it you create and commit a file called .readme_from containing the name of the source file containing POD text:

    $ echo 'lib/Your/App.pm' > .readme_from
    $ echo '^\.readme_from' >> MANIFEST.SKIP
    $ git add .readme_from MANIFEST.SKIP
    $ git commit -m 'githook-perltidy readme_from' && git push

With the above in place the README file will be updated (and potentially committed) whenever lib/Your/App.pm is committed.

githook-perltidy install [--force, -f]

Anyone making commits in a setup repository should ensure githook-perltidy runs from their pre-commit script. The install command can be used to create one, and must be run from the top-level directory of your repository. It writes a pre-commit file in the $GIT_DIR/hooks/ directory.

    $ githook-perltidy install
    $ cat .git/hooks/pre-commit
    #!/bin/sh
    /usr/local/bin/githook-perltidy pre-commit

This command fails if there is no .perltidyrc or .perltidyrc.sweetened file in the repository or if the hooks directory isn't found. It will also fail if the Git pre-commit already file exists, unless --force is used to replace it.

githook-perltidy pre-commit

The pre-commit command loops through the Git index, checking out files to a temporary working directory. For each temporary file it then:

• Runs perlcritic if it is a Perl file and .perlcriticrc exists.

• Runs perltidy if it is a Perl file, unless .perltidy-sweet exists in which case perltidy-sweet is run instead.

• Runs podtidy if it is a Perl or a Pod file and .podtidy-opts exists.

• Updates the Git index (git add $TEMP_FILE)

• Runs perltidy and/or podtidy on your working tree file of the same name. This prevents future git diff calls from showing diffs where there won't actually be any.

• If .readme_from exists and the file named therein is tidied, then githook-perltidy translates it with Pod::Text into a new README file. If the README file is tracked by Git then it is also added it to the index for committing.

Any tidying or critique error stops the script (and therefore the commit) immediately. Any successful cleanups to the index and working tree up until that point remain in place.

This command fails if there is no .perltidyrc or .perltidyrc.sweetened file in the repository.

GLOBAL OPTIONS

--verbose, -v

Print underlying Git commands or filesystem actions as they are run.

CAVEATS

There are two ways in which githook-perltidy behaviour may affect your existing workflow.

• If you are accustomed to commiting changes to files which are still open in your editor, your editor may complain that the underlying file has changed on disk. Possibily your editor doesn't even detect the change and your next write will not be 'tidy'.

• Aborting a commit with an empty commit message or via a later command in the pre-commit hook will still result in changed (tidied) files on disk and in the index.

FILES

.perltidyrc

Perltidy command options file.

.perltidyrc.sweetend

Perltidier (Perl::Tidy::Sweetened) command options file. Conflicts with .perltidyrc.

.podtidy-opts

Podtidy command options file. This is githook-perltidy specific.

.readme_from

Automatic README config file. This is githook-perltidy specific.

ENVIRONMENT

NO_GITHOOK_PERLTIDY

Setting this to 1 makes githook-perltidy a no-op. Useful if you want to make a non-tidy commit.

SUPPORT

This tool is managed via github:

    https://github.com/mlawren/githook-perltidy

SEE ALSO

githooks(5), perltidy(1), podtidy(1)

AUTHOR

Mark Lawrence <nomad@null.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2011-2018 Mark Lawrence <nomad@null.net>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

cpanm App::githook_perltidy

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install App::githook_perltidy