The no-brainer basic usage of any pre-commit hook is to make sure you don’t waste minutes while waiting for your build to finish and then end up with a failure

The no-brainer basic usage of any pre-commit hook is to make sure you don’t waste minutes while waiting for your build to finish and then end up with a failure because you don’t have a new line at the end of the file. So, adding lint(ers). Making sure every commit have a ticket reference (and auto add it from the branch name if possible) is a fantastic convenience that also avoids commits referencing the wrong ticket. You can also have a sanity check on what branches you don’t want to cowboy commit on unless you deliberately want to, like the main branch. Black is a tool that is better to run on save. The key to a good pre-commit hook is that it has to be _fast_ otherwise parts of the team will stop using it.