captainhook 0.8

A collection of git commit hooks

Git hook scripts

What is it

This package will install a pre-commit hook for git into the git repository that you are in at the time of installation.

Upon committing code, the pre-commit hook runs checks against the python files to be committed and rejects the commit if any of the checks fail.

Installation

Install using pip:

pip install captainhook

Once installed into your environment, you will be able to run:

captainhook

from within any git repo, and the pre-commit hook will be installed.

Setting Up

To turn a check on or off, create a tox.ini file in the base directory of your project with a captainhook section.

eg:

[captainhook]
flake8=off
pdb=off
python3=on

flake8, pdb and python3 checks default to being on.

Checks can also be passed arguments from the config file. This is done with the following notation:

<check_name>=<status>;<string to be passed through>

For example, flake8 can be passed a string which will be run as options against the flake8 command.

flake8=on;–show-source

Currently checks can only be passed a single argument and must do the parsing of that themselves.

Checks

Currently supported checks are

• pdb: Checks to see if there are any uncommented import pdb; pdb.set_trace() statements in the code to be committed.

• flake8: Runs flake8 against the files that are set to be committed.

• python3: Checks to see if python files set to be committed are python3 compatible.

Output

You only see output for checks that fail, otherwise silence.

Example output upon a rejected commit:

===============================================================================
Checking python3
===============================================================================
  File "captainhook/pre_commit.py", line 77
    print 'a'
            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
===============================================================================
Checking flake8
===============================================================================
pre-commit.py:19:1: F401 'importlib' imported but unused
pre-commit.py:128:1: E302 expected 2 blank lines, found 1
setup.py:25:80: E501 line too long (89 > 79 characters)
===============================================================================
Rejecting commit
===============================================================================

Extending

You can add your own check to your git env quite easily.

Simply add a module to .git/hooks/checkers with a run() method defined.

The method should return the error string on faillure, or a False like object on success.

For example:

$ cat .git/hooks/checkers/mine.py
def run():
    return "NOT A CHANCE"

This will block all commits if enabled.

A variable DEFAULT can be specified in the module and will be used to determine the check is assumed “on” or “off”. This value is only used if tox.ini has not been used to override it.

Feedback

I’m eager to get some feedback - positive or negative - about this.

Please make yourself at home, create issues if you’ve got problems with existing behaviour, or suggestions for future improvements or anything else.

You can reach me on twitter @couperalex.

Developing

Running pre-commit.py on its own will by default cause a git stash to take place which you probably don’t want when testing a new check.

You can run the script without performing such a stash using:

python captainhook/pre_commit.py -n