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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: Arguments to git hooks
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 03:15:41 -0400
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On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 12:05:51AM +0530, jaseem abid wrote:

> I am trying to write a hook '.git/hooks/commit-msg' to be run before
> every commit.
> 
> How can I pass arguments to the script? Now by default the only arg I
> am getting is `.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG'`. I would love to get the list of
> files I tried to commit also into the script so that I can run a lint
> program on it before committing it. How can I get this done?

It sounds like you want the "pre-commit" hook rather than "commit-msg".

But that aside, the solution is to use plumbing commands to examine the
state. You probably want "git diff-index --cached --name-only" to get
the list of files that are being committed.

-Peff