husky: git hook install triggered via npm but not yarn

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Installing the git hook is only triggered when husky is installed via npm but not yarn whereas uninstalling the hooks works for both tools. Similar to #81

Current Behaviour

Install

$ yarn add husky@0.15.0-rc.3 -D
arn add v1.4.0
[1/4] 🔍  Resolving packages...
[2/4] 🚚  Fetching packages...
[3/4] 🔗  Linking dependencies...
[4/4] 📃  Building fresh packages...
success Saved lockfile.
success Saved 5 new dependencies.
├─ ci-info@1.1.2
├─ husky@0.14.3
├─ is-ci@1.1.0
├─ normalize-path@1.0.0
└─ strip-indent@2.0.0
✨  Done in 3.13s.

and npm

$ npm i husky@0.15.0-rc.3 --save-dev
...
> husky@0.15.0-rc.3 postinstall /Users/abc/Development/project/node_modules/husky
> node lib/installer/bin install

husky > setting up git hooks
husky > done
+ husky@0.15.0-rc.3
added 8 packages, removed 575 packages and updated 47 packages in 8.268s

Uninstall

$ yarn remove husky
yarn remove v1.4.0
[1/2] Removing module husky...
$ node ./bin/uninstall.js
husky
uninstalling Git hooks
done

$ node ./bin/uninstall.js
husky
uninstalling Git hooks
done

[2/2] Regenerating lockfile and installing missing dependencies...
success Uninstalled packages.
✨  Done in 2.83s.

and npm

$ npm un husky --save-dev
> husky@0.15.0-rc.3 preuninstall /Users/abc/Development/project/node_modules/husky
> node lib/installer/bin uninstall

husky > uninstalling git hooks
husky > done
added 483 packages, removed 14 packages and updated 22 packages in 18.134s

Expected Behaviour

yarn add husky@0.15.0-rc.3 -D should also trigger the install of the git hooks.

Please mention your node.js, yarn and operating system version.

OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 yarn: v1.4.0 node: v9.4.0 npm: 5.6.0

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Reactions: 14
Comments: 20 (4 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I’m experiencing this with husky v3.0.1 Had to use https://github.com/typicode/husky/issues/227#issuecomment-361779926

chrislim on Jul 27, 2019

@mavogel thanks for the detailed issue 👍 that’s super helpful 😃 I’m not getting this issue with yarn v1.3.2, so not sure if it’s related to husky install script. I’ll have to try with yarn v1.4.0.

@fernandopasik https://github.com/typicode/husky/pull/126 could have but not really 😃 The PR is only for picking between npm or yarn when running a package.json script (for example, it would run precommit with yarn precommit or npm run precommit depending on which one is installed) and wouldn’t have any effect during husky installation.

Meanwhile, as a temporary workaround, you can manually run node node_modules/husky/lib/installer/bin install or add it to your package.json:

{
  "scripts": {
    "postinstall": "node node_modules/husky/lib/installer/bin install"
  }
}

One word of caution, use the postinstall hook only if you’re not publishing your project on npm, else your users will get errors when trying to install your module.

typicode on Jan 31, 2018

Same here ! Could we please re-open this issue ?

husky: 3.1.0 node: 12.10.0 (via nvm) yarn: 1.19.2 npm: 6.13.0

It does not install hooks on yarn add but npm install does

benouat on Dec 4, 2019

@typicode FWIW I’m using v1.3.2:

❯ yarn add husky
yarn add v1.3.2
[1/4] 🔍  Resolving packages...
[2/4] 🚚  Fetching packages...
[3/4] 🔗  Linking dependencies...
[4/4] 📃  Building fresh packages...
success Saved lockfile.
success Saved 2 new dependencies.
├─ husky@0.14.3
└─ strip-indent@2.0.0
✨  Done in 3.00s.

❯ yarn -v
1.3.2

jasonkuhrt on Jan 31, 2018

I had the same problem and I fixed it upgrading git.

Installing Husky didn’t create the hooks.

I tried running the script directly:

node node_modules/husky/lib/installer/bin install

And got this:

husky > Setting up git hooks
Husky requires Git >=2.13.0. Got v2.10.2.
husky > Failed to install

I guessed that during the installation this error was hidden among all the logs and I didn’t see it.

After updating git, I removed node_modules and run yarn install again. Everything worked.

I hope this helps 😄

lmuntaner on Apr 8, 2020

experiencing this with husky: 3.0.9 node: 12.2.0 (via nvm) yarn: 1.19.1 yarn workspaces

yarn install husky --dev -W

☝️ does not create the git hooks, confirmed via ls -l .git/hooks

Manually running husky’s bin install script does work though https://github.com/typicode/husky/issues/227#issuecomment-361779926

joebartels on Oct 29, 2019

I’ve published a new version if you want to give another try (just run yarn add husky@next --dev). I’ve moved v0.15 install script from postinstall to install (as it is in v0.14).

typicode on Feb 9, 2018