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Pre-commit hook

A pre-commit hook is the cheapest place to enforce commit policy: the developer finds out while they are still writing the message, not after a CI round trip.

Add Commit Check to .pre-commit-config.yaml:

repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check
    rev: v2.17.0
    hooks:
      - id: check-message
      - id: check-branch
      - id: check-author-name
      - id: check-author-email

Then install the hooks. check-message runs at the commit-msg stage, so it needs its own install step:

$ pre-commit install --hook-type commit-msg
$ pre-commit install

That is it. The next malformed commit message is rejected before it exists.

!!! warning "If check-message never runs"

It is almost always because `pre-commit install --hook-type commit-msg` was
not run — a plain `pre-commit install` only wires up the `pre-commit` stage.
More in [Troubleshooting](../troubleshoot.md).

Available hooks

Hook ID Stage Rules
check-message commit-msg CC001–CC013
check-branch pre-commit CC201–CC202
check-author-name pre-commit CC101
check-author-email pre-commit CC102
check-no-force-push pre-push CC301

check-no-force-push also needs its own install:

$ pre-commit install --hook-type pre-push

Configuring without a TOML file

Options can be passed as hook arguments, which keeps everything in one file:

repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check
    rev: v2.17.0
    hooks:
      - id: check-message
        args:
          - --subject-imperative=true
          - --subject-max-length=72
          - --allow-merge-commits=false

A cchk.toml is usually the better choice once you have more than a couple of options, because CI and the CLI read it too. See Configuration for the precedence rules.

Skipping a hook

Occasionally you need to get a commit through — a mid-rebase fixup, an automated migration. pre-commit supports this natively:

$ SKIP=check-message git commit -m "wip"

!!! warning "Local hooks are not a policy boundary"

Anyone can pass `--no-verify`. Hooks exist to give fast feedback to people
who want to follow the policy, not to stop people who don't. Pair them with
the [GitHub Action](github-actions.md), which runs where it cannot be
skipped.