topic Re: Pre-Commit hook in Databricks in Administration & Architecture

Pre-Commit hook in Databricks

Barnita — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:45:30 GMT

Hi team,

Anyone has any idea how to use pre-commit hooks when developing via Databricks UI?

Would specifically want to use something like isort, black, ruff etc.

I have created .pre-commit-config.yaml and pyproject.toml files in my cloned repo folder, but its not getting picked up.

Also if I try to execute `!pre-commit install` command in notebook it says "An error has occurred: FatalError: git failed. Is it installed, and are you in a Git repository directory?"

Any help would be much appreciated!

Re: Pre-Commit hook in Databricks

-werners- — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:18:53 GMT

AFAIK the databricks UI has no git cli support, so it cannot execute the hooks.
But at the rate things are changing, they might add it though.
If not, when you work locally + databricks connect + dab, it works fine.

Re: Pre-Commit hook in Databricks

nayan_wylde — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:50:34 GMT

Databricks Repos (Git folders) do not support Git hooks natively.
The error you're seeing (git failed. Is it installed, and are you in a Git repository directory?) is expected because:
1. The Databricks notebook environment does not expose a full Git CLI.
2. The workspace is not a true Git working directory, even if it's linked to a remote repo.

You cannot run pre-commit install inside a notebook because it requires access to .git/hooks, which isn't available in the Databricks UI environment.