Git: pre-receive hook with PHP_CodeSniffer

Question

Since switching from SVN to Git, we lost the ability to enforce our coding standards through a pre-commit hook on the subversion server.

With Git, you only

Answer 1

I don't have an exact answer to this question directly using pre-commit/pre-recieve hooks etc.

I approach this from the other way, running a CI server, (I use jenkins) running phpcs and the checkstyle plug-in for Jenkins.

This allows me to fail the build and email the committer based on the checkstyle report.

Optionally I can set thresholds, so I get an unstable build if there are upto 5 new style violaions but a failure if more than 5 are committed.

Also I can set overall thresholds, so more than 10 violations in the whole project causes a failure and emails the team.

This could be your intermediate server as mentioned above. The post build actions can include a Push to another git repo.