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diff --git a/public/git-go-pre-commit.html b/public/git-go-pre-commit.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba30bdb --- /dev/null +++ b/public/git-go-pre-commit.html @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> +<head> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <title>A git pre-commit hook for automatically formatting Go code — Luke Shumaker</title> + <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="assets/style.css"> +</head> +<body> +<header><a href="/">Luke Shumaker</a> » <a href=/blog>blog</a> » git-go-pre-commit</header> +<article> +<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. +# git diff --cached --numstat | +# while read add del file; do +# … +# done + +shopt -s globstar +for file in **/*.go; do + tmp="$(mktemp "$file.bak.XXXXXXXXXX")" + mv "$file" "$tmp" + git checkout "$file" + gofmt -w "$file" + git add "$file" + mv "$tmp" "$file" +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> + +</article> +<footer> +<p>The content of this page is Copyright © 2013 <a href="mailto:lukeshu@sbcglobal.net">Luke Shumaker</a>.</p> +<p>This page is licensed under the <a href="http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/">WTFPL-2</a> license.</p> +</footer> +</body> +</html> |