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-<header><a href="/">Luke Shumaker</a> » <a href=/blog>blog</a> » git-go-pre-commit</header>
+<header><a href="/">Luke T. Shumaker</a> » <a href=/blog>blog</a> » git-go-pre-commit</header>
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-<h1 id="a-git-pre-commit-hook-for-automatically-formatting-go-code">A git pre-commit hook for automatically formatting Go code</h1>
-<p>One of the (many) wonderful things about the Go programming language is the <code>gofmt</code> tool, which formats your source in a canonical way. I thought it would be nice to integrate this in my <code>git</code> workflow by adding it in a pre-commit hook to automatically format my source code when I committed it.</p>
-<p>The Go distribution contains a git pre-commit hook that checks whether the source code is formatted, and aborts the commit if it isn’t. I don’t remember if I was aware of this at the time (or if it even existed at the time, or if it is new), but I wanted it to go ahead and format the code for me.</p>
-<p>I found a few solutions online, but they were all missing something—support for partial commits. I frequently use <code>git add -p</code>/<code>git gui</code> to commit a subset of the changes I’ve made to a file, the existing solutions would end up adding the entire set of changes to my commit.</p>
-<p>I ended up writing a solution that only formats the version of the that is staged for commit; here’s my <code>.git/hooks/pre-commit</code>:</p>
+<h1 id="a-git-pre-commit-hook-for-automatically-formatting-go-code">A
+git pre-commit hook for automatically formatting Go code</h1>
+<p>One of the (many) wonderful things about the Go programming language
+is the <code>gofmt</code> tool, which formats your source in a canonical
+way. I thought it would be nice to integrate this in my <code>git</code>
+workflow by adding it in a pre-commit hook to automatically format my
+source code when I committed it.</p>
+<p>The Go distribution contains a git pre-commit hook that checks
+whether the source code is formatted, and aborts the commit if it isn’t.
+I don’t remember if I was aware of this at the time (or if it even
+existed at the time, or if it is new), but I wanted it to go ahead and
+format the code for me.</p>
+<p>I found a few solutions online, but they were all missing
+something—support for partial commits. I frequently use
+<code>git add -p</code>/<code>git gui</code> to commit a subset of the
+changes I’ve made to a file, the existing solutions would end up adding
+the entire set of changes to my commit.</p>
+<p>I ended up writing a solution that only formats the version of the
+that is staged for commit; here’s my
+<code>.git/hooks/pre-commit</code>:</p>
<pre><code>#!/bin/bash
# This would only loop over files that are already staged for commit.
@@ -31,12 +47,24 @@ for file in **/*.go; do
git add &quot;$file&quot;
mv &quot;$tmp&quot; &quot;$file&quot;
done</code></pre>
-<p>It’s still not perfect. It will try to operate on every <code>*.go</code> file—which might do weird things if you have a file that hasn’t been checked in at all. This also has the effect of formatting files that were checked in without being formatted, but weren’t modified in this commit.</p>
-<p>I don’t remember why I did that—as you can see from the comment, I knew how to only select files that were staged for commit. I haven’t worked on any projects in Go in a while—if I return to one of them, and remember why I did that, I will update this page.</p>
+<p>It’s still not perfect. It will try to operate on every
+<code>*.go</code> file—which might do weird things if you have a file
+that hasn’t been checked in at all. This also has the effect of
+formatting files that were checked in without being formatted, but
+weren’t modified in this commit.</p>
+<p>I don’t remember why I did that—as you can see from the comment, I
+knew how to only select files that were staged for commit. I haven’t
+worked on any projects in Go in a while—if I return to one of them, and
+remember why I did that, I will update this page.</p>
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-<p>The content of this page is Copyright © 2013 <a href="mailto:lukeshu@sbcglobal.net">Luke Shumaker</a>.</p>
+ <aside class="sponsor"><p>I'd love it if you <a class="em"
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+ <a class="em" href="/imworkingon/">my work</a> on the GNU/Linux
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