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Add a pre-commit hook for psscriptanalyzer

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git, powershell
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start with the pre-commit new-hooks documentation and the Pylint hook example linked in the issue. Determine how PSScriptAnalyzer should be exposed as a hook for PowerShell scripts; done means pre-commit can run it during commits and report analyzer problems before code is committed.

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Description

Issue - Question

it would be quite useful if I could use thehttps://pre-commit.com/tool to run PSScriptAnalyzer on my powershell scripts during the git commit stage. then I could find problems in my powershell code before they land into git repositories.

information how about to write a pre-commit hook can be found at https://pre-commit.com/#new-hooks
Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

for example, a pre-commit hook for pylint (the python linter) is at https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint

Dominant language
C#
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Merged PRs (30d)
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