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Zola pre-push hook
I commit the generated site files into my blog's repo because that is the easiest way to get github to host it for me. In order to not forget to build, I wanted a hook that reminds me before I push.
Running zola build alone isn't enough, as it doesn't give an error return code or modify one of the files to be pushed.
git diff doesn't normally have a return code to indicate if there are diffs, but git diff --quiet does.
Combining both will build and then fail, if anything in docs/ isn't added or committed.
zola build && git diff --quiet docs/
To include this in a pre-commit config, wrap it in bash -c and use as a system hook.
Check out me .pre-commit-config.yaml.