How to configure pre-commit hook without staged?

[Perdolique]

Every time vp install triggers vp config, autoconfigures vp check --fix and adds vp staged command to pre-commit file. I don't want to check staged files. How to avoid it and keep only my pre-commit file? I guess running vp config is required to install the hook.

[fengmk2]

You can remove the prepare script from package.json, so that vp install will no longer execute vp config.

[Perdolique]

But prepare is needed for repo configuration, isn't it? If I clone the repo w/o prepare script, then hooks will not be installed.

[wyf027]

prepare is only needed if you want package-manager installs to run vp config automatically after clone/install. It is not required for Vite+ itself to work.

The tradeoff is that current vp config does two hook-related things together:

1. installs/configures the Git hook dispatcher (core.hooksPath, .vite-hooks/_/...)
2. ensures .vite-hooks/pre-commit exists and contains vp staged

So if your goal is “install Vite+ hooks, but never add vp staged”, I do not think there is a dedicated option for that today. The documented escape hatches are:

{
  "scripts": {
    "prepare": "vp config --no-hooks"
  }
}

or:

VITE_GIT_HOOKS=0 vp config

Both keep vp config from touching hook installation, but that also means you must manage the Git hook setup yourself. For example, commit your own .vite-hooks/pre-commit file and make sure contributors run the equivalent hook setup command manually, or document the one-time git config core.hooksPath ... step your repo expects.

If you want this to be automatic for every clone while preserving a custom pre-commit that does not run vp staged, that sounds like it would need a new Vite+ option, something like vp config --no-staged / --no-pre-commit, because the current implementation intentionally appends vp staged when hooks are enabled.