In beezwax’s webdev division we generally work in pairs, but our commit logs didn’t used to show this. We wouldn’t bother to reconfigure the git author every time we sat down with a new pair so our git log only recorded one of the programmers’ names. Bryan Helmcamp has a nice script for setting your git commit author in pair programming situations. Here’s another one which works interactively.

I love git and I love to be lazy, so lately I’ve been playing with git hooks.

Git’s default pre-commit hook is really handy, but today I’m in more of a post-commit kind of mood.  Like all git’s hooks it comes with an example script.

This one isn’t particularly useful.  It evaluates Nothing and returns a successful exit code.  Big deal.

Git’s default post-commit hook.

#!/bin/sh
#
# An example hook script that is called after a successful
# commit is made.
#
# To enable this hook, make this file executable.

: Nothing