0 byte pre-commit because the location of the pre-commit file in the INSTALL file is incorrect

[kevin-lee]

The location of the pre-commit the file in INSTALL file is incorrect for proper installation. So after following the installation instructions, pre-commit is added to the .git/hooks folder, yet it is an empty file (0 byte).

That's because GitHub changed the URL for user-generated content from raw.github.com to raw.githubusercontent.com. Thus curl https://raw.github.com/hybridgroup/GitHub-Wikifier/master/pre-commit results in redirection and the pre-commit becomes an empty file.

So this

https://raw.github.com/hybridgroup/GitHub-Wikifier/master/pre-commit 

should be changed to

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hybridgroup/GitHub-Wikifier/master/pre-commit 

So if I do,

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hybridgroup/GitHub-Wikifier/master/pre-commit > .git/hooks/pre-commit;

it works.

[kevin-lee]

@shinokada So have you tried

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hybridgroup/GitHub-Wikifier/master/pre-commit > .git/hooks/pre-commit; 
chmod +x .git/hooks/pre-commit; 

in the terminal?
if so, can you see the contents in .git/hooks/pre-commit?
I think I had the same issue as yours, but it works now after doing what I just mentioned above.

Yes, both give you the same contents when accessing through a web browser, but the result of curl is different. I got 0 byte pre-commit file with raw.github.com.

I'm also using Yosemite so I can tell you that it works on Yosemite.

[shinokada]

Thanks. It worked.

curl -Lo- https://goo.gl/C170k | bash
// add changes
git add .
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hybridgroup/GitHub-Wikifier/master/pre-commit > .git/hooks/pre-commit;
git commit -m "new message"
git push  origin master
etc etc

I tried curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hybridgroup/GitHub-Wikifier/master/pre-commit > .git/hooks/pre-commit; first but it didn't work. Then I did curl -Lo- https://goo.gl/C170k | bash, and it worked.

Thanks again.

[kevin-lee]

@shinokada Good. Glad to hear that. 😄