A git command that automatically runs identifiable linters against changed files in your current git repository or staging area.
- Free software: MIT license
Git Lint runs a configurable set of syntax, style, and complexity checkers against changed files in your current working directory or staging area. It can be configured to work with any lint-like command. Some commands may require shell wrappers.
While it may be possible to create a custom lint command in your npm, grunt, Make, CMake, or whatever, the fact is we all use a VCS, and most of us use git. Having a centralized repository for what we want checked and how we want it checked, associated with git (and by extension, as a pre-commit hook), that can be run at any time for any reason.
- To lint only what's changed recently in your current working directory:
git lint
- To lint everything, changed or otherwise, from the current directory down:
git lint -a
- To lint what's changed from the repo's base:
git lint -b
- To lint what's in your staging directory:
git lint -s
Complete documentation for the project is available in the docs directory, or at Git Linter Docs.
This ought to work:
pip install git-linter
You will need to copy the .git-lint configuration file to either your home directory or the repo`s base directory. Edit the configuration file as needed. You will also need any linters that you plan on running.
As git-linter is still mostly alpha code, it might be better to install from source:
git clone https://github.com/elfsternberg/git-linter python setup.py install
- Highly configurable - configuration files, both for git-lint and individual linters, can be global or per-project.
- Only checks files that have been changed, but this can be overriden from the command line.
- Can be used directly as a pre-commit hook, to ensure you personally don't check in anything broken.
- Used this way, it checks the staging area, not your workspace.
- When using the staging area, it stashes your current work. Upon restoration of your workspace, it ensures the timestamps are the same, so as not to confuse your build system or IDE.
Git lint started life as a simple pre-commit hook. Most of the changes since were inspired by Steve Pulec's Why You Need a Git Pre-Commit Hook and Why Most Are Wrong, as well as just my own needs as a software developer.
- The '-q' and '--quiet' arguments do not work.
- Ought to be able to silence the "no linter found" message.
- Ought to be able to configure '-q' and '--silence' commands in .git-lint/config file.
- Ought to be able to override config file for above.
This software, including provided configuration and documentation materials, is provided "as is" without any warranties, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness, performance, or quality. In no event shall the author or sponsor be liable for any special, direct, indirect, or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of this software. Each user of the program will agree and understand, and be deemed to have agreed and understood, that there is no warranty whatsoever for the program and, accordingly, the entire risk arising from or otherwise connected with the program is assumed by the user.