What is Git hooks

We often call this as web hooks as well. By default we get some configuration files when you install git. These files we use to set some permissions and notification purpose. We have different types of hooks (pre commit hooks & post commit hooks)

Pre-commit hooks:- Sometimes you would want every member in your team to follow certain pattern while giving commit message. Then only it should allow them to commit. These type of restrictions we call pre-commit hooks.

Post-commit hooks:- Sometimes, being a manager you would want an email notification regarding every commit occurs in a central repository. This kind of things we call post-commit hooks.

In simple terms, hooks are nothing but scripts to put some restrictions