githooks - Git hooks management

Question

We use custom-written Git hooks in our project.

Hooks are stored in a project's repository, and, when they do change, to get a new version each user must copy them manually in his .git/hooks directory. This is rather inconvenient.

One way to improve this is to make .git/hooks a symlink into worktree. But this would imply that each branch (even user's local feature branches under development) should have the most current version of hooks. This is not convenient as well.

How would you solve the problem?

Answer 1

Maintain a separate repository of your hooks and symlink into that.

I agree, it'd be nice if Git had a built-in mechanism for propagating hooks scripts but it doesn't.