Introduction

Abort finishing hotfix or feature if CHANGELOG.md (or any other file for that matter) has not been changed in the last commit.

I am sure this can be done with just bash in lieu of python but my bash-fu is not that great. I wrote this in a hurry because I used to keep forgetting to update the CHANGELOG.md of a work project until I had pushed the changes.

Usage

To check git flow hotfix finish, create a file named pre-flow-hotfix-finish and put the following -- make necessary changes.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
python /<path/to/this/repo>/okay.py /full/path/to/project/directory

To apply this to git flow feature finish create another file named pre-flow-feature-finish and put the same content.

In the beginning, when you do git flow init, it prompts for a hooks and filters directory. If you've already initialized the repo, run the following to set/change the hooks path.

git config gitflow.path.hooks /<path/to/this/repo>