[pre-commit] Add codespell-log commit-msg hook
Now that we're using codespell to check spelling in gdb files, can we use
codespell to bring this spelling warning:
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$ echo usuable | codespell -
1: usuable
usuable ==> usable
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to:
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$ git commit -a -m "Usuable stuff"
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?
First, let's look at a straightforward commit-msg hook implementation:
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- id: codespell
name: codespell-commit-msg
verbose: true
always_run: true
stages: [commit-msg]
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installed using:
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$ pre-commit install -t commit-msg
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When trying the commit, we get:
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$ echo "/* bla */" >> gdb/gdb.c
$ git commit -a -m "Usuable stuff"
black................................................(no files to check)Skipped
flake8...............................................(no files to check)Skipped
isort................................................(no files to check)Skipped
codespell............................................(no files to check)Skipped
check-include-guards.................................(no files to check)Skipped
black................................................(no files to check)Skipped
flake8...............................................(no files to check)Skipped
codespell............................................(no files to check)Skipped
codespell-commit-msg.....................................................Failed
- hook id: codespell
- duration: 0.06s
- exit code: 65
.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG:1: Usuable ==> Usable
check-include-guards.................................(no files to check)Skipped
$
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The commit was aborted, but the commit message is still there:
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$ cat .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG
Usuable stuff
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We can retry and edit the commit message to clean up the typo:
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$ git commit -e -F .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG -a
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but it's a bit cumbersome.
Furthermore, say we fix a typo and want to document this in the commit log, and
do:
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$ git commit -m "Fixed typo: useable -> usable" -a
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This commit cannot succeed, unless we add a codespell ignore tag, which feels
like taking it too far.
Both these problems can be addressed by setting things up in such a way that
the commit always succeeds, and codespell output is shown as a hint.
Ideally, we'd tell to pre-commit to implement this using some setting, but
there doesn't seem to be one.
So we use some indirection. Instead of using native codespell, use a local
hook that calls a script gdb/contrib/codespell-log.sh, which calls pre-commit,
which calls codespell.
Using this approach, we get:
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$ echo "/* bla */" >> gdb/gdb.c
$ git commit -a -m "Usuable stuff"
black................................................(no files to check)Skipped
flake8...............................................(no files to check)Skipped
isort................................................(no files to check)Skipped
codespell............................................(no files to check)Skipped
check-include-guards.................................(no files to check)Skipped
black................................................(no files to check)Skipped
flake8...............................................(no files to check)Skipped
codespell............................................(no files to check)Skipped
check-include-guards.................................(no files to check)Skipped
codespell-log............................................................Passed
- hook id: codespell-log
- duration: 0.18s
codespell-log-internal...................................................Failed
- hook id: codespell
- exit code: 65
.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG:1: Usuable ==> Usable
[codespell/codespell-log-2 d081bd25a40] Usuable stuff
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
$
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This is obviously convoluted, but it works. Perhaps we can propose a
pre-commit improvement (always_pass) and simplify this eventually.
Checked new script codespell-log.sh with shell-check.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
2 files changed
