Adjust the gitcc command to run properly when the git commit is run from the host machine.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html) (as of version 0.1.0).
 
+## [0.3.0] `2026-05-08`
+
+### Changed
+- Adjusted the gitcc command to run properly when the git commit is run from the host machine (no container found).
+- Moved the example scripts into the scripts/examples directory.
+
+
 ## [0.2.0] `2026-05-07`
 
 ### Added

README.md

@@ -4,15 +4,19 @@
 
 ---
 
-- Download the files and place the scripts directory and the gitcc shell script within your repo.
+- Download the git-commit-check directory and place it within your repo (e.g. `path/to/your/repo/bin/git-commit-check`)
 
 - Run the following commands to copy the pre-commit hook script example and the config example files
   and edit their values according to your project.
 
+Let's assume you placed gitcc files under the bin directory of your repo:
 ```
-cp hooks/pre-commit.example hooks/pre-commit
-cp config.sh.example config.sh
+cd path/to/your/repo
+cp bin/git-commit-check/hooks/pre-commit.example bin/git-commit-check/hooks/pre-commit
+cp bin/git-commit-check/config.sh.example bin/git-commit-check/config.sh
 ```
 - Run the following command to instruct git to call `gitcc` before allowing the developer to create a new commit.
 
-`git config core.hooksPath hooks`
+```
+git config core.hooksPath bin/git-commit-check/hooks`
+```

config.sh.example

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # [general]
-PROJECT_PATH="path/to/project"
-GITCC_PATH="path/to/gitcc"      # relative to the project path
+PROJECT_PATH="/path/to/project"          # Absolute path to the project, e.g. /var/www/my-project
+GITCC_PATH="path/to/gitcc"               # Relative path to the project, e.g. "bin/git-commit-check"
 GITCC_REPORTS_PATH="$GITCC_PATH/reports"
 GITCC_SCRIPTS_PATH="$GITCC_PATH/scripts"
+
 cd "$PROJECT_PATH" || exit
 
-# [scripts]
-# Include the ids of those scripts that should be executed.
+# [script IDs] - Include the ids of those scripts that should be executed.
 ENABLED="01,02,03,04,05"
 
 # [about]

gitcc

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # Git Commit Check (gitcc)
-# Version: 0.2.0
+# Version: 0.3.0
 # Author: Angelos Theodorakopoulos <angtheod@gmail.com>
 
 # Change to the directory of the script and source the required scripts.

hooks/pre-commit.example

@@ -1,20 +1,17 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# This is the script for the pre-commit git hook
-# To instruct git to use this script run `git config core.hooksPath hooks`
+# Script for the pre-commit git hook.
+# To configure git to run this script before each commit, run `git config core.hooksPath hooks`
 
+# [pre-commit]
+PROJECT_PATH="/path/to/project"          # Absolute path to the project, e.g. /var/www/my-project
+GITCC_PATH="path/to/gitcc"               # Relative path to the project, e.g. "bin/git-commit-check"
 CONTAINER_ENGINE=$(which docker 2>/dev/null || which podman 2>/dev/null)
-PROJECT_PATH="/path/to/project"
 CONTAINER_NAME="container_name"
 SHELL="/bin/sh"
-COMMAND="vendor/bin/gitcc"
-#DOCKER_COMPOSE_PATH="/path/to/docker-compose.yml"
-#CONTAINER_SERVICE="container_service_name"
+COMMAND="$PROJECT_PATH/$GITCC_PATH/gitcc"
 
 if [ -z "$CONTAINER_ENGINE" ]; then
-    vendor/bin/gitcc
+    eval "$COMMAND"
 else
     $CONTAINER_ENGINE exec -tw "$PROJECT_PATH" "$CONTAINER_NAME" "$SHELL" -c "$COMMAND"
-    #Same but using Dockers compose plugin (if installed)
-    #cd "$DOCKER_COMPOSE_PATH" || exit 1
-    #docker compose exec -Tw "$PROJECT_PATH" "$CONTAINER_SERVICE" "$SHELL" -c "$COMMAND"
 fi