Git hooks templates
Hooks in Git are scripts executed at specific moments (e.g. before or after committing). A complete explanation about how to use them can be found by running:
git help hooks
If you have hooks that you use in all your projects, Git provides a system of templates to automatically define parts of the .git directories which will be created in the future. A template can contain, among other things, a hooks directory to store the hooks to use.
First, you need to create the directory you want to use as template with the hooks you want to have in your projects:
mkdir -p /path/to/template/directory/hooks
touch /path/to/template/directory/hooks/pre-commit
# write hook script
chmod +x /path/to/template/directory/hooks/pre-commit
Then, you need to define in your configuration that Git should use a template directory:
git config --global init.templatedir /path/to/template/directory/
Then if you create a new repository (git init) or clone an existing one,
it will contain the hooks you defined in your template.
If you want to apply your template in already existing clones, run
git init .
at the root of the repository.
More information is available in Git's manual:
git init --help