What's this about?
Git hooks are programs you install in Git repositories in order to augment Git's functionality.
The Git::Hooks Perl module is a framework that makes it easier to implement and use Git hooks. It comes with a set of plugins already implementing useful functionality for you to make sure your commits comply with your project policies. As a Git user or a Git server administrator you probably don't need to implement any hooks for most of your needs, just to enable and configure some of the existing plugins.
Documentation
The main module documents its usage in detail. Each plugin is implemented as a separate module under the Git::Hooks:: namespace. The Git::Hooks distribution comes with a set of plugins and you can find more on CPAN.
For a gentler introduction you can try our tutorial which has sections for Git users, Git administrators, and Gerrit administrators.
Installation
Git::Hooks is installed like any other Perl module. It's easier to use a CPAN client, such as cpanm or cpan, so that dependencies are installed automatically:
$ cpanm Git::Hooks
$ cpan Git::Hooks
You can even use it directly from a clone of its Git repository. All you have to do is to tell Perl where to find it by using this in your scripts:
use lib '/path/to/clone/of/git-hooks/lib';
use Git::Hooks;
Getting Help
The best way to ask questions or to report problems is to file an issue at GitHub.
Copyright & License
Git::Hooks is copyright (c) of CPqD.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. About the only thing you can't do is pretend that you wrote code that you didn't.
Enjoy!
Gustavo Chaves gnustavo@cpan.org