iprecommit 0.2.1

Dead-simple Git pre-commit hooks

A simple tool to manage pre-commit hooks for Git.

Install it with pip:

pip install iprecommit

Then, initialize a pre-commit check in your git repository:

cd path/to/some/git/repo
iprecommit init

iprecommit init will create a file called hooks/precommit.py, and install it as a Git pre-commit check. You can customize the location with the --hook flag.

Now, whenever you run git commit, the checks in precommit.py will be run automatically. You can also run the pre-commit checks manually:

iprecommit run

Some pre-commit issues can be fixed automatically. To do so, run

iprecommit fix

By default, iprecommit run and iprecommit fix operate on both staged and unstaged changes. To only consider staged changes, pass the --staged flag. (Note that the real pre-commit check only looks at staged changes.)

User guide

Precommit file format

The precommit.py file that precommit generates will look something like this:

from iprecommit import Precommit, checks

pre = Precommit()
pre.check(checks.NoDoNotSubmit())
pre.check(checks.NewlineAtEndOfFile())
pre.command(["black", "--check"], pass_files=True, pattern=["*.py"])

iprecommit comes with some built-in checks, such as NoDoNotSubmit() and NewlineAtEndOfFile(). You can also use pre.command(...) to define your own checks based on shell commands. These checks will pass as long as the shell command returns an exit code of 0.

By default, pre.command(...) will just invoke the command. If you need to pass file names to the command, specify pass_files=True. Only changed files will be passed. You can constrain the files to be passed using pattern, which takes a list of glob patterns interpreted the same way as fnmatch.fnmatch, and exclude.

Writing your own checks

iprecommit comes with some useful checks out of the box, but sometimes you need to write your own checks. Doing so is straightforward.

Checks are Python classes that inherit from BaseCheck. They must provide a single function, check, which takes a parameter of type Changes and returns a list of Message objects.

• The Changes object has three fields: added_files, modified_files, and deleted_files, each of which is a list of Path objects.
• The Message object has two fields: message and path. Currently, path is not printed, so if the exact file path is important, you should include it in the human-readable message field so that the user knows what file it is talking about.

check should return one Message for each failure it identifies. If it returns an empty list, the pre-commit check is considered to have passed.