pre-commit: It does not write pre-commit file in hooks folder on Windows

Pretty much a duplicate of #43

pre-commit:
pre-commit: Failed to symlink the hook file in your .git/hooks folder because:
pre-commit: EPERM: operation not permitted, symlink '..\..\node_modules\pre-commit\hook' -> 'C:\path\to\glory\.git\hooks\pre-commit'
pre-commit: The hook was not installed.
pre-commit:

However, I’d like to share some more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

Ideally, we could request elevation something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/windows-elevate or call a native function.

Thanks!

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Even easier in a root command prompt just call node ./node_modules/pre-commit/install.js which will call the original install script provided by pre-commit and install the symlinked file for you

alallier on Oct 11, 2016

@alallier Thanks for your time!

Found where is problem. In my project .git folder not at the same level as node_modules, it located in parent folder. Now pre-commit fails silently if not found .git folder at the same level.

There is pull-request https://github.com/observing/pre-commit/pull/55. But not merged yet

Alex-Sokolov on Apr 20, 2017

Same result for me, although I did not get that error message (in fact I did not get any error, it just did not write the file). The solution in #43 did not work for me.

janis-kra on Jun 20, 2016

thank@alallier

I had to try ‘pre-commit’, but it does not work because of having no ‘pre-commit’ file. so I use node ./node_modules/pre-commit/install.js, it work successfully.

xiaoqiang730730 on Oct 24, 2016

@alallier Your suggestion fixed it for me, thanks. Windows 10 Node 4.4.7

IAMtheIAM on Oct 11, 2016

this should be solved by https://github.com/observing/pre-commit/pull/84

barroudjo on Nov 8, 2016

thank @alallier , I try it under the win10 System Node 6.3.0. And it succeeds.

Wangbaogang on Oct 17, 2016

UPDATE: Per my previous comment, upon further testing I disocvered that pre-commit will show the error on the initial install of pre-commit, but if you are to discover that it symlink isn’t installed (like it doesn’t in Windows without being Administrator) and run the npm i again the error won’t show, because the install.js in not ran again, once pre-commit has already been installed.

alallier on Jul 12, 2016