A git checkstyle pre-receive hook
When multiple developers work on one project it is also essential that they all commit source code that matches some formatting rules. Otherwise reviewing changes and merging source code can be a great challenge. When using git repositories you can install hooks. Hooks are any kind of executables that can be run before something happens in a git repository like creating a commit or updating the refs during a push command. I developed a small bash script that can be used to execute checkstyle on every push and that rejects changes that have checkstyle errors. The script is simple and easy to configure so I want to share it here. Just… Read More »A git checkstyle pre-receive hook