Putting Git hooks into a repository

Question

Is it considered to be a bad practice - to put `.git/hooks` into the projects repository (using symlinks, for example). If yes, what is the best way to deliver same hooks to different Git users?

Accepted Answer

Nowadays you can do the following to set a directory that is under version control to be your Git hooks directory, e.g., `MY_REPO_DIR/.githooks` would be

```
git config --local core.hooksPath .githooks/
```

It is still not directly enforceable but, if you add a note in your README (or whatever), this requires a minimum of effort on each developer's part.

Putting Git hooks into a repository

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