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A GitHub action to run pre-commit

Introduction

This action is a fork of pre-commit/action that adds optional features for private repositories.

Permissions required: repo and workflow.

Usage

name: pre-commiton:
pull_request:
push:
branches: [main]jobs:
pre-commit:
runs-on: ubuntu-lateststeps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: actions/setup-python@v5
- uses: cloudposse/github-action-pre-commit@v4.0.0

To run a specific hook or pass custom arguments:

- uses: cloudposse/github-action-pre-commit@v4.0.0with:
extra_args: flake8 --all-files

For private repositories, configure push-back support:

- uses: actions/checkout@v4with:
fetch-depth: 0
- uses: cloudposse/github-action-pre-commit@v4.0.0with:
token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}git_user_name: pre-commitgit_user_email: pre-commit@users.noreply.github.comgit_commit_message: pre-commit fixes

Inputs

NameDescriptionDefaultRequired
extra_argsoptions to pass to pre-commit run--all-filesfalse
git_commit_messagegithub commit message to push withpre-commit fixesfalse
git_user_emailgithub user email to push withpre-commit@example.comfalse
git_user_namegithub user name to push withpre-commitfalse
tokengithub token to clone / push withN/Afalse

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✨ Contributing

This project is under active development, and we encourage contributions from our community.

Many thanks to our outstanding contributors:

For 🐛 bug reports & feature requests, please use the issue tracker.

In general, PRs are welcome. We follow the typical "fork-and-pull" Git workflow.

  1. Review our Code of Conduct and Contributor Guidelines.
  2. Fork the repo on GitHub
  3. Clone the project to your own machine
  4. Commit changes to your own branch
  5. Push your work back up to your fork
  6. Submit a Pull Request so that we can review your changes

NOTE: Be sure to merge the latest changes from "upstream" before making a pull request!

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License

Preamble to the Apache License, Version 2.0

Complete license is available in the LICENSE file.

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