Since Git 2.54.0, you can now setup your hooks in local git config. This allows to easily configure and share hooks with your team, without a third party helper to setup. In this article, I share how I set it up and how I replace Husky with it.

How to setup

[hook "lint-commit"]
  event = pre-commit
  command = yarn commitlint \${1}

First, create a .gitconfig in your repository. Add the config of your choice. Then, tell git where your config is:

git config set --local include.path ../.gitconfig

The path is relative to your .git/config file. Running this command edits it to add:

[include]
  path = ../.gitconfig

How to remove Husky

Husky was a great tool to share hooks until now. Now, it's not needed anymore. Here are the steps to remove:

1. remove reference from your local git config
2. remove the dependency from package.json
3. replace husky setup command with git's

Here are the commands to run:

# This should return your local husky folder. In my case, it was `.husky`
git config --local core.hooksPath
# To remove it
git config --local --unset core.hooksPath

yarn remove husky

In my package.json, I used to have yarn run postinstall to run husky. Now I replaced it with git config set --local include.path ../.gitconfig. New contributor can also benefit from the hooks.