manual_setup.md

Manual Setup

• Set a global githooks directory

  $ mkdir -p ~/.git/hooks
  $ git config --global core.hooksPath "~/.git/hooks"

• Download the prepare-commit-msg file into the directory

• Ensure it is set as executable (Linux and macOS)

  $ chmod +x ./prepare-commit-msg

  This githook will append the Co-authored-by trailers to the commit message.

  If you want this githook to add a Jira Issue ID as a prefix to the commit message when the git branch name begins with a string resembling one, uncomment line 12 to call the function add_jira_issue_id_prefix.

If a repository overrides core.hooksPath git configuration variable (e.g when using husky), then you will need to do additional steps for each such repository

• Retrieve the local (repository-specific) hooks directory

  $ git config --local core.hooksPath

• Download the prepare-commit-msg.local as prepare-commit-msg file into the directory

• Ensure it is set as executable (Linux and macOS)

  $ chmod +x ./prepare-commit-msg

  This githook will invoke the global prepare-commit-msg githook that you originally set up.