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Git Flow vs pre-commit by Yelp: What are the differences?
Developers describe Git Flow as "A set of git extensions to provide high-level repository operations". It provides excellent command line help and output. It is a merge based solution. It doesn't rebase feature branches. On the other hand, pre-commit by Yelp is detailed as "A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks". If one of your developers doesn’t have node installed but modifies a JavaScript file, pre-commit automatically handles downloading and building node to run jshint without root. Pre-commit is a multi-language package manager for pre-commit hooks. You specify a list of hooks you want and pre-commit manages the installation and execution of any hook written in any language before every commit. pre-commit is specifically designed to not require root access.
Git Flow and pre-commit by Yelp can be categorized as "Git" tools.
Git Flow and pre-commit by Yelp are both open source tools. pre-commit by Yelp with 3.2K GitHub stars and 238 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Git Flow with 1.92K GitHub stars and 463 GitHub forks.
Pros of Git Flow
Pros of pre-commit by Yelp
- Multiple language support2
- Modular1