Hartwork Blog

When switching between branches with different sets of .py files it can easily happen that code containing broken imports is slipping through unnoticed. By broken import I mean “import foo” with no “foo.py” around on that branch.

Such thing can happen, as the .pyc file is still laying around. To prevent it you could stuff this into ./.git/hooks/post-checkout:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
find . -name '*.pyc' -print -delete | \
   sed 's|^|[post-checkout] Deleting |'

or a slightly smarter version of it:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
find . -type f -name '*.pyc' -exec bash -c '
pyc_file="{}"
py_file=${pyc_file/\.pyc/.py}
if [[ ! -f "${py_file}" ]]; then
	rm -v "${pyc_file}"
fi
' \; | \
sed 's|^|[post-checkout] |'

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