⚡ Summary

I am not sure lefthook or even git hooks are the right tools but I have the following problem:

I have a set of private generic hooks (think commitlint, spell check, etc.) which I would like to run on every git repo and:

1. I want to avoid manually configuring a configuration file in every repo.
2. I want to keep those hooks private.
3. I want to use them in repos where hooks are not "officially" used or other hooks are used (manual ones, using other frameworks like pre-commit.com).

   Note: One issue here is that I cannot use a lefthook-local.yaml without a leftook.yaml present which is a problem in some repos.

Value

It allows to automate part of my workflow and ensures I don't forget to run some checks.

Behavior and configuration changes

This might be related to #29 (symlinks won't work in my case). But a couple options are:

1. Lefthook should run with just a lefthook-local.yaml without a lefthook.yaml being present.
   This would allow running lefthook privately without a shared config (kind of how git hooks originally work)
2. To build on top of the proposal abvve, Lefthook could read a configuration file located in the GIT_DIR (default: .git). This would allow syncing a base configuration to all repos with git init and a git template.

   • This configuration file should not take precedence over the lefthook{,-local}.yaml files as it only holds a base config.
   • Lefthook should as well run with just that file if present.

3. More closely related, but lefthook could on top of (or instead of) the above proposals read a global configuration (think $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lefthook.yaml) which would act as a base configuration and could be overwritten by any configuration file within the repository.