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Commit hooks in git live in the .git/hooks directory. What I would love is be able to commit those hooks so everyone checking out the repo has the hooks automatically. I'm not able to add the files inside .git/hooks to git however. Is this not at all possible?

I do realise there are server side hooks by the way, this is a theoretical quest :)

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    IMO that would introduce a security concern - people cloning your repo would get code executed without their knowledge. Rather, I suggest something not 10^2% automatic: commit the hooks to the repo itself and write a script to put (copy or move) the hooks in place. Of course it still requires you to instruct contributors to run that script by hand.
    – jweyrich
    Commented Jul 4, 2011 at 18:12

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No, all you can do is have the hooks in the repo if needed and ask the owner of the repo to copy them to the .git/hooks ( or have another script in the repo that will copy the hooks ( or create symlink to them) , change permission etc. when it is run )

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    Or symlink them, like we do with phpBB: github.com/phpbb/phpbb3/tree/develop/git-tools/hooks
    – igorw
    Commented Jul 4, 2011 at 18:52
  • @igorw - thanks, forgot about symlink which is what I do, lol :)
    – manojlds
    Commented Jul 4, 2011 at 18:56
  • Thanks, I will then proceed to write a script which generates symlinks indeed.
    – hoppa
    Commented Jul 4, 2011 at 19:36

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