docs: Create comprehensive hook development guide #28
Description
Overview
Create a comprehensive guide for developing, testing, and contributing new pre-commit hooks to this repository.
Purpose
Provide clear documentation to help contributors:
- Understand hook architecture and standards
- Develop new hooks following best practices
- Test hooks thoroughly
- Submit quality contributions
Content Requirements
1. Hook Development Basics
- What are pre-commit hooks?
- Repository structure overview
- Naming conventions
- File organization
2. Writing Hooks
- Shell script best practices
- Error handling patterns
- Input/output standards
- Exit codes and their meanings
- Dependency management
3. Security Guidelines
- Input validation
- Safe file operations
- Avoiding command injection
- Secret handling
- Permission requirements
4. Testing Hooks
- Using the bats framework
- Writing effective tests
- Mocking external commands
- Coverage requirements
- CI integration
5. Contributing Process
- Fork and clone workflow
- Branch naming conventions
- Commit message format
- PR requirements
- Review process
6. Examples
- Simple hook example
- Complex hook with dependencies
- Multi-file processing hook
- Language-specific hook
7. Common Patterns
- File filtering
- Parallel processing
- Progress reporting
- Configuration handling
- Cross-platform compatibility
8. Troubleshooting
- Common errors
- Debugging techniques
- Performance optimization
- Platform-specific issues
Deliverables
- CONTRIBUTING.md enhancement
- docs/HOOK_DEVELOPMENT.md guide
- Example hook template
- Test template
- Quick reference card
Success Criteria
- Clear, comprehensive documentation
- Practical examples
- Reduced barrier to contribution
- Consistent hook quality
- Faster PR reviews
Related
- feat: Implement CI/CD pipeline #26 - CI/CD implementation
- test: Add comprehensive test coverage for all hooks #27 - Test coverage
- Current CONTRIBUTING.md needs update