Note: This is specific to using TortoiseGit to add your hooks.

I’ve covered Creating a pre-commit hook for TortoiseSvn previously for SVN. We can create similar hooks for GIT also.

Either create a script or other form of executable (this one’s a C# console application). This example is going to do nothing of real interest. It’ll simply stop commits to a repo. but is useful if we place a Debugger.Break before the Console line, for debugging purposes

static int Main(string[] args)
{
   Console.Error.WriteLine("No commits allowed");
   return 1;
}

A non-zero return value indicates a failure and hence this code will effectively stop any commits to the repository it’s applied to.

The arguments sent to the method will be as follows

* 1st arg is the file name of a file which contains a list of files that have changed
* 2nd arg is the file name of a file which has the commit message
* 3rd arg is the folder being committed

Now we compile our application and place it in the .git\hooks\ folder and we need to name it pre-commit.exe.

That’s all there is to it.