hk is a git hook manager and project linting tool with an emphasis on performance.
Compared to other git hook managers, hk has tighter integration with linters and is able to make use of read/write file locks in order to maximize concurrency while also preventing race conditions.’
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Bunch of builtins you can use for common linters like prettier or black.
- Stashes unstaged changes before running “fix” hooks. This prevents a common issue with pre-commit hooks where files containing both staged and unstaged changes get modified and the unstaged changes end up being staged erroneously.
- By default, hk uses libgit2 to directly interact with git instead of shelling out many times to git. (This generally makes hk much faster but there are situations like fsmonitor where it may perform worse)
- Rust CLI which gives it great startup performance.
- Designed to work well with my other project mise-en-place which makes it easy to manage dependencies for hk linters.
Website: github.com/nosarthur/gita
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Developer: Jeff Dickey
License: MIT License
hk is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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