NAME

Git::Hooks::CheckFile - Git::Hooks plugin for checking files

VERSION

version 1.14.1

DESCRIPTION

This Git::Hooks plugin hooks itself to the hooks below to check if the contents of files added to or modified in the repository meet specified constraints. If they don't, the commit/push is aborted.

• pre-commit

• update

• pre-receive

• ref-update

• patchset-created

• draft-published

To enable it you should add it to the githooks.plugin configuration option:

    git config --add githooks.plugin CheckFile

NAME

CheckFile - Git::Hooks plugin for checking files

CONFIGURATION

The plugin is configured by the following git options.

githooks.checkfile.name PATTERN COMMAND

This directive tells which COMMAND should be used to check files matching PATTERN.

Only the file's basename is matched against PATTERN.

PATTERN is usually expressed with globbing to match files based on their extensions, for example:

    git config githooks.checkfile.name *.pl perlcritic --stern

If you need more power than globs can provide you can match using regular expressions, using the qr// operator, for example:

    git config githooks.checkfile.name qr/xpto-\\d+.pl/ perlcritic --stern

COMMAND is everything that comes after the PATTERN. It is invoked once for each file matching PATTERN with the name of a temporary file containing the contents of the matching file passed to it as a last argument. If the command exits with any code different than 0 it is considered a violation and the hook complains, rejecting the commit or the push.

If the filename can't be the last argument to COMMAND you must tell where in the command-line it should go using the placeholder {} (like the argument to the find command's -exec option). For example:

    git config githooks.checkfile.name *.xpto cmd1 --file {} | cmd2

COMMAND is invoked as a single string passed to system, which means it can use shell operators such as pipes and redirections.

Some real examples:

    git config --add githooks.checkfile.name *.p[lm] perlcritic --stern --verbose 5
    git config --add githooks.checkfile.name *.pp    puppet parser validate --verbose --debug
    git config --add githooks.checkfile.name *.pp    puppet-lint --no-variable_scope-check
    git config --add githooks.checkfile.name *.sh    bash -n
    git config --add githooks.checkfile.name *.sh    shellcheck --exclude=SC2046,SC2053,SC2086
    git config --add githooks.checkfile.name *.erb   erb -P -x -T - {} | ruby -c

COMMAND may rely on the GIT_COMMIT environment variable to identify the commit being checked according to the hook being used, as follows.

• pre-commit

  This hook does not check a complete commit, but the index tree. So, in this case the variable is set to :0. (See git help revisions.)

• update, pre-receive, ref-updated

  In these hooks the variable is set to the SHA1 of the new commit to which the reference has been updated.

• patchset-created, draft-published

  In these hooks the variable is set to the argument of the --commit option (a SHA1) passed to them by Gerrit.

The reason that led to the introduction of the GIT_COMMIT variable was to enable one to invoke an external command to check files which needed to grok some configuration from another file in the repository. Specifically, we wanted to check Python scripts with the pylint command passing to its --rcfile option the configuration file pylint.rc sitting on the repository root. So, we configured CheckFile like this:

    git config --add githooks.checkfile.name *.py mypylint.sh

And the mypylint.sh script was something like this:

    #!/bin/bash

    # Create a temporary file do save the pylint.rc
    RC=$(tempfile)
    trap 'rm $RC' EXIT

    git cat-file $GIT_COMMIT:pylint.rc >$RC

    pylint --rcfile=$RC "$@"

githooks.checkfile.sizelimit BYTES

This directive specifies a size limit (in bytes) for any file in the repository. If set explicitly to 0 (zero), no limit is imposed, which is the same as not specifying it. But it can be useful to override a global specification in a particular repository.

githooks.checkfile.basename.deny REGEXP

This directive denies files which basenames match REGEXP.

githooks.checkfile.basename.allow REGEXP

This directive allows files which basenames match REGEXP. Since by default all basenames are allowed this directive is useful only to prevent a githooks.checkfile.basename.deny directive to deny the same basename.

The basename checks are evaluated so that a file is denied only if it's basename matches any basename.deny directive and none of the basename.allow directives. So, for instance, you would apply it like this to allow the versioning of .gitignore file while denying any other file with a name beginning with a dot.

    [githooks "checkfile"]
        basename.allow ^\\.gitignore
        basename.deny  ^\\.

githooks.checkfile.path.deny REGEXP

This directive denies files which full paths match REGEXP.

githooks.checkfile.path.allow REGEXP

This directive allows files which full paths match REGEXP. It's useful in the same way that githooks.checkfile.basename.deny is.

AUTHOR

Gustavo L. de M. Chaves <gnustavo@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2016 by CPqD <www.cpqd.com.br>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm Git::Hooks

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Git::Hooks