Setup git pre-push hook
Motivation I often forget to run tests before pushing my commits. This is a bad practice. Someone might use my broken code in a collaborative environment. I was looking for a way to automatically run tests before creating a commit or pushing commits. The solution is Git Hooks: Customizing Git Hooks . Git Hooks Many hooks can be setup in a Git repository. For example, Git Hooks can run before creating a commit ( pre-commit ), after creating a commit ( post-commit ) and before pushing commits to a remote branch ( pre-push ). All of these are client-side hooks and client-side hooks are not shared across local repositories. The other type of hooks are server-side hooks that run after commits are pushed to a remote server and policy is imposed on all users of the repository. I have setup pre-push in a Git repository to avoid forgetting to run tests before sending updates to the remote server. Setup pre-push The way to setup pr...