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lefthook – Git hooks manager

lefthook is a Git hooks manager for Node.js, Ruby, Python and many other types of projects.

Configure your hooks, install them once and forget about it: rely on the magic underneath.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Fast. It is written in Go. Lefthook runs commands and scripts sequentially by default.
  • Powerful. It allows to control execution and files you pass to your commands.
  • Glob and regexp filters.
  • Execute in sub-directory.
  • You can specify tags for commands and scripts. This is useful for excluding. You can specify more than one tag using comma.
  • Simple. It is single dependency-free binary which can work in any environment.

Website: github.com/evilmartians/lefthook
Support:
Developer: typicode
License: Arkweid

lefthook is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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