Lefthook
Fast and powerful Git hooks manager
Lefthook is a fast, polyglot Git hooks manager that runs linters, tests and other commands in parallel before commits and pushes. It is self-hosted within each repository as a single binary.
Key features
- Parallel hook execution
- Language-agnostic
- Single binary
- Simple YAML config
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- Mature project with 8.6k GitHub stars
- Written in Go
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