Git pre-commit hook to remove stray debugger statements from your merb project.

pre-commit.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Remove stray debugger statements from the modified files before committing

# get a list of added, modified, copied files
files=`git diff --cached --name-only --diff-filter=ACM`

# remove debugger lines
#
# 1. remove any line containing a debugger
# sed -i "/debugger/d" $files
#
# 2. remove lines that contains only a debugger
sed -i "/^\s*-*\s*debugger\s*$/d" $files
#
# 3. remove commented/un-commented lines that contain only a debugger
# sed -i "/^\s*#*\s*debugger\s*$/d" $files

# re-stage the modified files
git add $files