A standard task I began placing in my projects lately is one that easily integrates with my build tool of choice (rake, psake, etc…) and when run, installs a git pre-commit hook into my local copy of the repo that will run tests before code is committ. I’ve fancied calling the task putOnAHelmet.

Come checkout a small little github repo I started to keep track of various versions of this and feel free to open an issue or send a pull request with another one!

I don’t want to get into details about pre-commit hooks and how you should author them in this post (maybe we can expand the language in the repo’s readme…). You can also check out other writings… But one of the biggest problems I have with them is gits in-ability to easily keep track of pre-commit hooks much like it can with the rest of the projects source.

Now it’s true that different people need the ability to customize these, but a general “running of tests” before committing is a great first step and I’ve found these set of tasks the easiest way to carry them from repo to repo.

Hope others find this useful!

Happy committing!