.git_templates

This repository is designed to provide a means for setting up global git hooks via hook templates.

Setup

1. Clone this repository directly into your home directory:

   cd ~
   git clone git@github.com:chasms/.git_templates.git
   

2. Set this repo up as your git template directory:

   git config --global init.templatedir '~/.git_templates'
   

3. Install the git gem to enable scripting:

   gem install git
   

Usage

The hooks in this repository will automatically be installed in any newly initialized or newly cloned git repos.

To use them with an existing repository, run git init in that repository to reinitialize with the templated hooks.

In all cases, templated hooks will not overwrite existing hooks, either pre-existing or previously installed via these templates. This means that if you want to make changes to any hook template and want to see those changes carry over to that hook in a repository, you will need to delete the current hook in that repository's .git directory and then re-run git init.

Hooks

Name	Function
post-commit	This hook writes all commits to a commit_log.txt file located in your home directory. Formatting for commit logs is as follows: Wed, Sep 18 2019 01:48pm [repository:branch] commit message
prepare-commit-msg	This hook will append the everything before the first / in a branch name to the beginning of the commit message e.g. branch JIRA-123/fix-routes with commit message Fixed route issues will create a final commit message [JIRA-123] - Fixed route issues (credit @dillonmcroberts)

Bonus

Add this function to your .bashrc or .bash_profile to make pulling up and searching commits as easy as typing commits into your terminal:

commits () {
  cat ~/commit_log.txt | grep "$*"
}