GitHub Action and git pre-commit hook to detect a NOMERGE and a NOCOMMIT flag in your code.

Add those markers anywhere in a comment or in a debug printf to avoid accidentally merging temporary code to production.

Use this for code you don’t even wish to commit. Anything you never want to see on CI, e.g. temporary credentials, local dev setup, etc.

You can add a git pre-commit hook to help you catch any accidental commits, see the pre-commit file.

Example:

static int
mul(int x, int y)
{
  printf("debug: mul(%d, %d) called", x, y) // NOCOMMIT
  return x * y;
}

Trying to commit this will raise an error:

$ git commit -va
+  printf("debug: mul(%d, %d) called", x, y) // NOCOMMIT

Adding line containing NOCOMMIT. To ignore, use git commit --no-verify
$

The GitHub action is optional if you use the pre-commit hook.

Same as NOCOMMIT, but it won’t trip up that pre-commit hook. Use this for changes you want to push to CI, but not merge to master. This is useful for debugging CI or for testing something on deployed infra.

This only works if you have the GitHub Action installed, regardless of the pre-commit hook.

To automatically detect this in any PR on GitHub, add the following GitHub action:

on:
  - pull_request

name: Syntax
jobs:
  nocommit:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: "nocommit checker"
        uses: nobssoftware/nocommit@v2

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