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I have an application (.exe) I wrote which takes a file path and performs some custom formatting on the file passed in. I would like to know if there's a way using git pre-commit hooks to pass in the changed files being committed to my .exe so they can be formatted before going to the git repository. If so how? I don't know php so if there's a way to do this using c# or .bat file I'd prefer this. If there's a different better approach i'm open to that also.

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That would be the job for a content filter driver (a clean one), not a pre-commit hook.

See "Protecting files in git repository": you can declare a script which will apply to only certain files, automatically on commit.

VonC
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  • I read the post from your link thank you. However, i don't see how i can leverage that information for what i'm trying to do. Is it possible you could provide some more detail to help me out? – johnsontroye Mar 19 '18 at 15:18
  • @johnsontroye I don't have much beside that post: the first step is to be able to write a script able to revert the custom formatting back to the original file content. – VonC Mar 19 '18 at 16:26