Autohook is a lightweight Git hook manager built around a single shell script. It provides a straightforward way to organise and execute commands in response to Git events, without requiring a separate framework or complex configuration system.
The application uses symbolic links to connect Git’s hook entry points to a common script. When an event occurs, Autohook locates the corresponding directory and executes the scripts stored there.
Autohook supports two approaches to managing hooks. Scripts can be stored directly in a repository, allowing them to be shared with the source code and vary between branches. Alternatively, they can be maintained centrally for use across multiple projects and development environments.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Uses a single Bash script to dispatch Git hook events to their associated commands.
- Creates symbolic links in the repository’s .git/hooks directory using the install command.
- Supports pre-commit, commit-msg, post-checkout, pre-push and other Git hook types.
- Runs multiple executable scripts for a single Git event, allowing checks and automation tasks to be separated.
- Uses relative symbolic links for repository-local installations and absolute paths for centrally installed scripts.
- Supports numbered script prefixes to control execution order.
- Provides the AUTOHOOK_HOOKS_PATH environment variable for specifying alternative hook directories.
- Accepts colon-separated search paths, allowing project-specific scripts to run alongside common shared hooks.
- Forwards Git hook command-line arguments and standard input to the individual scripts.
- Allows scripts to be reused between different Git hooks through symbolic links, hard links or wrapper scripts.
- Requires no separate configuration file or additional programming-language runtime beyond its shell environment.
Website: github.com/Autohook/Autohook
Support:
Developer: Nikola Kantar and contributors
License: MIT License
Autohook is written in Bash.
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