To use these:

• clone this repo into ~/.git_template
• check that ~/.git_template/hooks/pre-commit exists
• make sure your ~/.gitconfig contains:

    [init]
    templatedir = ~/.git_template
  

Now anytime you checkout a repo OR use git init in a directory, the prepare-commit-msg hook will be copied into your project’s .git/hooks folder.

ⓘ Tip: You can safely run git init at the root of pre-existing git projects to get the template hooks copied over.

prepare-commit-msg

This commit hook will extract a Jira issue key from your branch name (you are naming your branches with issue keys, aren’t you?) and append it to all commit messages so that many places across our products can glue commits together with issues.

pre-commit

This one is for preventing yourself from accidentally committing files that you want to change, but not commit.

Add the text DO_NOT_COMMIT_THIS to such files, then any commit including that file will not succeed.