A git hook to help you avoid adding to you commit information you don't want (i.e. debugging statement)

pre-commit.sh

# This script verifies if a list of "undesired" words are presented in the files you are intented to commit such console 
# output, debugging information or keys/tokens/passwords

# Based on the git hook created by Mark Story

# http://mark-story.com/posts/view/using-git-commit-hooks-to-prevent-stupid-mistakes

# Instructions:

# Put this file into your .git/hooks folder and remove the .sh extension

# ---------------------------------------------

#!/bin/sh

# Modify this
# LIST='list\|of\|words\|splitted\|by\|slash\|and\|pipe'
LIST="puts\|debugger\|binding.pry\|logger"

if git rev-parse --verify HEAD >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    against=HEAD
else
    against=4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904
fi

for FILE in `git diff-index --name-status --cached $against -- | cut -c3-` ; do
    # Check if the file contains one of the words in LIST
    if grep -w $LIST $FILE; then
      echo $FILE." has one of the word you don't want to commit. Please remove it"
      exit 1
    fi
      done
exit 

@alexishevia: Thanks for pointing out the misspelling (Y) So glad you found the article useful. Thanks for reading!