fix: remove self-recursive husky hook stubs - #68
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.husky/post-checkout, post-commit and post-merge (added in aac9753) each contain only the path to their own shim. The shim runs the user hook with `sh -e`, so that line re-invokes the shim and every checkout, commit or merge recurses until killed. The stubs carry no commands, and husky's shims exit cleanly when a user hook file is absent, so delete them. Signed-off-by: Ahmad Al Tamimi <altamimi.dev@gmail.com>
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#49 added
.husky/post-checkout,.husky/post-commitand.husky/post-merge, each containing just the path to its own shim (e.g..husky/_/post-checkout). Husky's shim runs the user hook withsh -e, so that line calls the shim again, which runs the hook again, and so on. Once hooks are installed, everygit checkout, commit or merge loops until you kill it. I first hit it when a rebase hung on post-checkout (mentioned in #16 (comment)).The stubs don't run any commands, and the shims exit cleanly when a user hook file doesn't exist, so deleting them is the whole fix. The real hooks (
pre-commit,pre-push) are untouched. If post-checkout/commit/merge automation was intended in #49, real commands can be added back in those files later.Verified by toggling branches with hooks installed: checkout now completes instantly instead of recursing.