Source Control / Tools

This page provides a summary of tools I commonly use for source control at I.

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

pre-commit

I use pre-commit at I to easily add git hooks to my Git repos. This allows me to automate things like checking for merge conflicts or mistakenly adding secret keys in my code. See this example pre-commit config file from one of my projects.

Since git does not distribute hooks when a repository is cloned, you will have to install pre-commit in each cloned repo manually using pre-commit install --install-hooks or pre-commit will not run in that repo. To assist with automating this step, pre-commit has a feature to exploit the template directory setting in git:

git config --global init.templateDir ~/.git-template
pre-commit init-templatedir ~/.git-template

From now on, each new repository you create or clone will have pre-commit installed automatically.

pre-reqs

I use pre-reqs to bootstrap system pre-requisites that are required to run the code I push to gitlab.