Re: Arguments to git hooks

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 12:05:51AM +0530, jaseem abid wrote:

I am trying to write a hook '.git/hooks/commit-msg' to be run before
every commit.

How can I pass arguments to the script? Now by default the only arg I
am getting is `.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG'`. I would love to get the list of
files I tried to commit also into the script so that I can run a lint
program on it before committing it. How can I get this done?

It sounds like you want the "pre-commit" hook rather than "commit-msg".

But that aside, the solution is to use plumbing commands to examine the
state. You probably want "git diff-index --cached --name-only" to get
the list of files that are being committed.

-Peff