Git: pre-receive hook with PHP_CodeSniffer

Question

Since switching from SVN to Git, we lost the ability to enforce our coding standards through a pre-commit hook on the subversion server.

With Git, you only

Answer 1

We use a git wrapper (to replace git-submodules with something more sane for our purposes) and it has the side-effect of automatically setting up pre-commit hooks automatically from a magic directory. Since this is in a business environment, there are no complains (and there is a way to turn that off anyway).