Why your husky hooks are not working

Crizant Lai

Sep 10, 2018·1 min read

Husky is a great tool for adding git commit hooks, it is so useful when you need to check the commit message or run a series of linter/formatter etc. during git commit.

Today I was going to setup a new repo, but the husky hooks are not working at all. I spent half an hour to finally figure out the problem:

After installing husky, it runs a script to patch the .git folder (i.e. .git/hooks) to actually add hooks to git commit. It does nothing if your .git folder is not present. Therefore:

Make sure you have initialized git first, before installing husky.