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Allow passing files as single arguments to system command
See original GitHub issueSorry if this has been asked before, but I can’t find anything in the docs, web or issues. My problem is simple, I have a “system” command that accepts one argument, so I want to run it once per file, but pre-commit passes multiple files to it. How can I avoid that and run the command once per changed file instead?
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this is intentionally not a feature because spinning up many subprocesses one-by-one is extremely slow – the underlying tools should be fixed to support multiple
that said you can work around it as above – or as these duplicates indicate:
That does work, thank you! Hopefully this can be added as a feature to save someone else the frustration. Thanks again!