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I think of Git hooks as a useful guiderail for myself that I share with others. They sometimes help me reduce the length of iteration cycles for workflows (which I generally don't like) where one typically commits before running/deploying (e.g., most of my team's Terraform repos).

> you can't force folks to run them

I think it's useful to be able to disable things like this when debugging or reconfiguring them. I sometimes disable the ones I've set up for myself, then reenable them later.

> Why not just call a shell script directly?

Because it's manual; I have to remember to do it each time. But there's no reason not to have a script you can invoke in other ways, if that's something you want.

> How would you use these with a CI/CD platform?

The thing that sets up your environment also installs the git hooks configuration, and/or you can have it invoke specific hooks via CLI.