Pre Commit Hook for JSLint in Mercurial and Git

Question

I want to run JSLint before a commit into either a Mercurial or Git repo is done.

I want this as an automatic step that is set up instead of relying on the developer (ma

Answer 1

JSLint with SpiderMonkey

for js in $(git diff-index --name-only --cached HEAD -- | grep '\.js$'); do
    if jslint.sh $js 2>&1 | grep 'Lint at line' ; then
        echo $js
        exit 1
    else
        echo "js files validated"
        exit 0
    fi  
done