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[–] dan@upvote.au 54 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (12 children)

At my workplace, we use the string @nocommit to designate code that shouldn't be checked in. Usually in a comment:

// @nocommit temporary for testing
apiKey = 'blah';
// apiKey = getKeyFromKeychain();

but it can be anywhere in the file.

There's a lint rule that looks for @nocommit in all modified files. It shows a lint error in dev and in our code review / build system, and commits that contain @nocommit anywhere are completely blocked from being merged.

(the code in the lint rule does something like "@no"+"commit" to avoid triggering itself)

[–] 8uurg@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Neat idea. This could be refined by adding a git hook that runs (rip)grep on the entire codebase and fails if anything is found upon commit may accomplish a similar result and stop the code from being committed entirely. Requires a bit more setup work on de developers end, though.

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Would a git hook block you from committing it locally, or would it just run on the server side?

I'm not sure how our one at work is implemented, but we can actually commit @nocommit files in our local repo, and push them into the code review system. We just can't merge any changes that contain it.

It's used for common workflows like creating new database entities. During development, the ORM system creates a dev database on a test DB cluster and automatically points the code for the new table to it, with a @nocommit comment above it. When the code is approved, the new schema is pushed to prod and the code is updated to point to the real DB.

Also, the codebase is way too large for something like ripgrep to search the whole codebase in a reasonable time, which is why it only searches the commit diffs themselves.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

There are many git hooks. One of them checks each commit, but there's another that triggers on merges.

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