dolibarr-fork/dev/setup/pre-commit

'pre-commit' ("replaces" precommit)

Introduction

pre-commit is a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

"pre-commit hooks" integrate with git and are run when you perform a git commit for instance.

Historically there was precommit for Dolibarr which you can find in this directory. That script runs phplint, phpcs and phpcbf upon commit.

pre-commit is not specific to Dolibarr and is deployed on many projects - mostly Python projects, but it is applicable to most (or all) code and documentation development.

You can find documentation at https://pre-commit.com/ .

Now you can use pre-commit which uses the configuration found at the root of the project: pre-commit-config.yaml.

How to

1. Install pre-commit.
   If you do not have python installed, install python first.
   If you do not have pip, install that as well.\

   Then you can install pre-commit: python -m pip install pre-commit.

2. In you local git clone of the project, run pre-commit install. That will add the hooks.

Tips

After installing pre-commit onto your local git clone, pre-commit will run on every commit.

When it finds some issue, the git commit will be aborted, so you can fix it, or verify it.

The tools run by pre-commit may modify your code: format PHP code (phpcbf), fix line endings, end of files, etc.

They may also alert about potential issues: syntax errors, spelling errors, code quality, an execute bit that was (not) set in the git repository, etc.

One way to use it is this:

cd PROJECT_DIR
pre-commit install  # Only needed once
# Repeat until success.
git commit -a -m "My message"
# `pre-commit` is run and reports
# Check the results, make fixes, and re-commit (=repeat above line).

In some cases you may want to commit despite the changes.
You can just add --no-verify to your git command:

git commit -a -m "My message" --no-verify

If you want to skip certain checks for whatever reason, you can set the SKIP environment variable:

SKIP=no-commit-to-branch git commit -a -m "My message"

or

export SKIP=no-commit-to-branch   # In your .bashrc or session.

There is much more you can do with pre-commit, check out its documentation.

Now your commit is less likely to fail in the Continuous Intagration (CI) run on github.
CI also runs pre-commit to help maintain code quality.