git-hound

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "# Git Hound\n[![Travis](https://img.shields.io/travis/ezekg/git-hound.svg?style=flat-square)](https://travis-ci.org/ezekg/git-hound)\n[![Code Climate](https://img.shields.io/codeclimate/github/ezekg/git-hound.svg?style=flat-square)](https://codeclimate.com/github/ezekg/git-hound)\n[![GoDoc](https://img.shields.io/badge/godoc-reference-blue.svg?style=flat-square)](https://godoc.org/github.com/ezekg/git-hound)\n\nHound is a Git plugin that helps prevent sensitive data from being committed into a repository by sniffing potential commits against PCRE regular expressions.\n\n## How does it work?\nUpon commit, it runs the output of `git diff -U0 --staged` through the Hound, which matches every _added_ or _modified_ line against your provided list of regular expressions from a local `.githound.yml` file.\n\n## Installation\nTo install Hound, please use `go get`. If you don\u0027t have Go installed, [get it here](https://golang.org/dl/). If you would like to grab a precompiled binary, head over to the [releases](https://github.com/ezekg/git-hound/releases) page. The precompiled Hound binaries have no external dependencies.\n\n```\ngo get github.com/ezekg/git-hound\n```\n\nIf you\u0027re on macOS, you can also install using Homebrew:\n\n```\nbrew install git-hound\n```\n\n## Compiling\nTo compile for your operating system, simply run the following from the root of the project directory:\n```bash\ngo install\n```\n\nTo compile for all platforms using [`gox`](https://github.com/mitchellh/gox), run the following:\n```bash\ngox\n```\n\n## Usage\n```\ngit-hound [\u003copts\u003e] commit [...]\ngit-hound [\u003copts\u003e] sniff [\u003ccommit\u003e]\n```\n\n### Commit\nSniff changes before committing.\n\n```bash\n# Sniff changes since last commit and pass to git-commit when clean\ngit hound commit \u2026\n```\n\n### Sniff\nYou can optionally pass a commit hash or manually pipe a diff for the Hound to sniff.\n\n```bash\n# Sniff changes since last commit\ngit hound sniff HEAD\n\n# Sniff entire codebase\ngit hound sniff\n\n# Sniff entire repo history\ngit log -p | git hound sniff\n```\n\n",
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