pre-commit: autoupdate
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When using pre-commit, you can take advantage of
its built-in pre-commit autoupdate command to keep your hook dependencies
up-to-date.
There’s one major drawback of adopting it ubiquitously: it is virtually impossible to instruct it to skip certain repositories.
It wouldn’t be hard to update it to ignore hook dependencies with skip byline comments, but its author isn’t keen on implementing support for it.
So far I’ve been working around it by manually reverting undesired updates, but that is super tedious and inefficient.
Today I discovered a small utility,
pre-commit-update, which
explicitly supports that and was created precisely because of the limitation of
the original subcommand:
pre-commit-update was created because there is no easy way to update your hooks by using pre-commit autoupdate as it is not versatile enough.
The tool (which is thankfully also written in Python, for uniformity) supports a
config file to skip certain hooks from autoupdate.