Git with Github
Till now all the operations we did were in our local repo while git also helps us in a collaborative environment. GitHub is one place on the internet where you can centrally host your git repos and collaborate with other developers.
Most of the workflow will remain the same as we discussed, with addition of couple of things:
- Pull: to pull latest changes from github (the central) repo
- Push: to push your changes to github repo so that it's available to all people
GitHub has written nice guides and tutorials about this and you can refer them here:
Hooks
Git has another nice feature called hooks. Hooks are basically scripts which will be called when a certain event happens. Here is where hooks are located:
spatel1-mn1:school-of-sre spatel1$ ls .git/hooks/
applypatch-msg.sample fsmonitor-watchman.sample pre-applypatch.sample pre-push.sample pre-receive.sample update.sample
commit-msg.sample post-update.sample pre-commit.sample pre-rebase.sample prepare-commit-msg.sample
Names are self explanatory. These hooks are useful when you want to do certain things when a certain event happens. If you want to run tests before pushing code, you would want to setup pre-push hooks. Let's try to create a pre commit hook.
spatel1-mn1:school-of-sre spatel1$ echo "echo this is from pre commit hook" > .git/hooks/pre-commit
spatel1-mn1:school-of-sre spatel1$ chmod +x .git/hooks/pre-commit
We basically create a file called pre-commit in hooks folder and make it executable. Now if we make a commit, we should see the message getting printed.
spatel1-mn1:school-of-sre spatel1$ echo "sample file" > sample.txt
spatel1-mn1:school-of-sre spatel1$ git add sample.txt
spatel1-mn1:school-of-sre spatel1$ git commit -m "adding sample file"
this is from pre commit hook # <===== THE MESSAGE FROM HOOK EXECUTION
[master 9894e05] adding sample file
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
create mode 100644 sample.txt