Temporarily skipping the installation of a hook and falling back to an installed version

[ltfish]

search you tried in the issue tracker

skip; skip install; skip installation

describe your actual problem

Sometimes I work in environments where I do not have good enough Internet connection or enough bandwidth, installing new versions of some hooks (e.g., ruff or pyright) may simply be impossible. I wish there was an option that allows pre-commit to skip the installation of all hooks and falls back to an existing installed version of all missing hooks. I do not want to completely disable the hooks because they are still useful and running old versions are oftentimes as good as running new versions (plus our CI runs the latest versions regardless).

This feature is useful for people working on airplanes or trains without Starlink. I understand that the use case is niche, so I can implement it if you think it's a useful addition to pre-commit.

pre-commit --version

pre-commit 4.0.1

[asottile]

pre-commit will only ever run exactly what is configured. allowing it to run arbitrary un configured is not a good idea

fortunately, you can craft a config against already installed things if you want (or run pre-commit install-hooks before getting on a plane)

or better yet, have some work life balance and watch a movie ;)