Git pre-commit hook not running on windows

Question

I\'m just starting to look into Git hooks, but I can\'t seem to get them to run.

I set up a local repository, so there is now a \'.git\' directory in my project folder.

Answer 1

in my case where i did npm install & accidentally deleted .git folder, npm install pre-commit --save worked

Answer 2

For me i none of the above solution worked. I moved the pre-commit file from hooks to some other location, effectively deleting the file from hooks.

That Worked for me :D

Answer 3

If it helps anyone: I was getting following error:

error: cannot spawn .git/hooks/pre-commit: No error

Turned out that in my pre-commit file I did not have 'newline' character after last exit command:

#!/bin/sh
# From gist at https://gist.github.com/chadmaughan/5889802

# stash any unstaged changes
git stash -q --keep-index

# run the tests with the gradle wrapper
./gradlew test --daemon

# store the last exit code in a variable
RESULT=$?

# unstash the unstashed changes
git stash pop -q

# return the './gradlew test' exit code
exit $RESULT
# << must have a newline after above command >> 

I was running gradle project on windows and gradle commands in cmder shell and cmd

Answer 4

You probably don't have the permissions to run the pre-commit file

Run in your terminal:

chmod +x .git/hooks/pre-commit

Thanks to @vaughan for giving the idea

Answer 5

For me, I tried to run a .bat file.

I discovered that backslashes need to be escaped:

For example:

#!/bin/bash
C:\\somefolder\\somefile.bat

Answer 6

Maybe it'll help someone - in my case, I had set core.hooksPath to wrong directory. Reseting it with git config --global core.hooksPath '~/.githooks' solved the issue :)