Pre-commit hook for Git checking Python code quality. The hook will check files ending with .py or that has a she bang (#!) containing python.

The script will try to find pylint configuration files in the order determined by pylint. It also looks for a [pre-commit-hook] section in the pylint configuration for commit hook specific options.

Install via PyPI

pip install git-pylint-commit-hook

The commit hook will automatically be called when you are running git commit. If you want to skip the tests for a certain commit, use the -n flag, git commit -n.

Settings are loaded by default from the .pylintrc file in the root of your repo.

[pre-commit-hook]
command=custom_pylint
params=--rcfile=/path/to/another/pylint.rc
limit=8.0

command is for the actual command, for instance if pylint is not installed globally, but is in a virtualenv inside the project itself.

params lets you pass custom parameters to pylint

limit is the lowest value which you want to allow for a pylint score. Any lower than this, and the script will fail and won't commit.

Any of these can be bypassed directly in the pre-commit hook itself. You can also set a different default place to look for the pylintrc file.

The test suite requires nose2 to be installed. Install it with pip install nose2, then run the tests by executing the following command (in the project root folder):

nose2

This project supports Python 2.7 and Python 3.5. Please install other requirements via

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Check if a file is ignored before checking if it's a python file #69

• Don't fail files with pylint: skip-file #66

• Skip pylintrc parameter, if file not present #62

• Make stashing optional #56
• Bug fix for pylinit 1.7.x #57

• Let the wrapper script call sys.exit #55 contributed by coldnight

• Correct index.lock file deletion and other fixes & formatting. Thanks to @sandipagarwal for this bug fix

• Add support for Python 3.5
• Support for showing pylint violations in case of passing of limit. Contributed by @sandipagarwal
• Use pylints config file read order. Contributed by @evanunderscore
• Fix multiple git process problem. Thank you @lagelalegal for providing a fix.
• Add flag for ignoring certain files. Thanks @thiblahute for the contribution
• Some refactor and bug fixes

• Stash unstaged changes before running pylint. Thanks @evanunderscore for the PR

• Add Python 3 support. Thanks @jAlpedrinha for the PR
• Add tox support. Thanks @jAlpedrinha for the PR

• Add option to suppress pylint report if score is below limit. Thanks @jwkvam for the PR

• 2.0.6 fails if pylint params is not set
• Separate code for testing if a file is Python into a new function
• Add unit tests for _current_commit and get_list_of_committed_files

• --rcfile=.pylintrc is not added if pylint params is None

• Make hook work properly on initial commit. Thanks @evvers for the PR

• Add pylint to install_requires. Thanks @evvers for the PR

• Fixed error in decimal representation

• Added --version flag to command line #22
• Packaging fixes

• Documentation updated and moved to Read The Docs
• git-pylint-commit-hook is now a regular command
• Installation via PyPI: pip install git-pylint-commit-hook
• Configurable using command line parameters. See the documentation for details

• Added support for default .pylintrc file, and also for loading our own options from there.

• Fixed bug #9 Old file names of moved files are checked

• Bug when skipping init.py files fixed. Wrong path was checked under some circumstanses

• Added support for negative pylint scores #4
• Added support for custom command line params to pylint #6
• Fixed bug #3 Empty .py files fails according to pylint

• Fixed bug #2 Hook missed some Python files when committing a mixture of file types

• Fixed bug #1 Files parsed number is not increased

• Fixed bug with non-python files getting checked, if they contained python on the first row

• Added support for handling moved or deleted files

• Initial release of the commit hook