Git hooks
Git hooks examples
When repo is updated, you need to execute some commands like npm install
or composer install
for example. To do this, you can use git hooks, it's script that you can configure when git event triggered.
Check .git/hooks
directory on root of repository, it's available on all repositories. If you want to execute commands after git pull
, create a new script and name it post-merge
.
WARNING
Your git hooks, like .git/hooks/post-merge
won't be pushed, it's only available on your local repository.
Create post-merge script
At the root of repository create new bash script
vim .git/hooks/post-merge
Add commands to build app (you can add your own commands, this is just an example)
#!/bin/bash
npm install
npm run build
Make your script executable
sudo chmod +x .git/hooks/post-merge
Verify that your script is executable
./.git/hooks/post-merge
All commands in this scripts will be executed after git pull.
Tips
Save your scripts
You can create a directory into your repository, like bin
, and save your scripts into it. Then you can call your scripts from .git/hooks/post-merge
.
mkdir bin
You can add all your commands into a script, like bin/build.sh
.
#!/bin/bash
npm i
npm run build
Then you can call this script from .git/hooks/post-merge
.
#!/bin/bash
./bin/build.sh
.git/hooks/post-merge
won't be pushed but bin/build.sh
will be pushed and you can share it with your team. Just create a new .git/hooks/post-merge
if you install this repository on a new machine.