Automatically add .gitignore and hooks on git init

Question

Is there a way to tell git to automatically create/populate .gitignore and certain files in the .git/hooks folder every time git init is run on a certain machin

Answer 1

If we are talking about a repo containing JavaScript and using npm, then you can use husky to set up commit hooks.

npm install husky --save-dev

// package.json
{
  "husky": {
    "hooks": {
      "pre-commit": "npm test",
      "pre-push": "npm test",
      "...": "..."
    }
  }
}

This does not answer the original question directly, but may be relevant to many developers.