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git-hooks
git-hooks
Go2014–2018
git-hooks / git-hooks

git-hooks

git hooks manager

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2Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
418GitHub stars
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git hooks manager

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 11:56:56 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-11-20 09:54:00 UTC to 2018-07-28 16:33:25 UTC.

0122014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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prophesi·Jul 28, 2018
You only need to install Go if you're wanting to manually build the project (which is a good idea for security reasons). You otherwise just add the compiled binary to your path and you're good to go. He gives his reasonings for it here: https://github.com/git-hooks/git-hooks/wiki/Why-golang The tl;dr is that it will eventually have features that would be nontrivial to implement with bash, and Go is easier on the development-side than C (coming from a frontend dev experience).
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