git-code-format-maven-plugin | maven plugin that automatically deploys code formatters | Build Tool library

You only need to put the plugin in your root project pom.xml. By default all submodules will be handled. initialize is the first phase of the Maven lifecycle. Any goal that you perform (e.g. compile or test) will automatically trigger initialize and thus trigger the git pre-commit hook installation. If after setting up the plugin in your pom, you just executed a maven goal, the only expected output is a pre-commit hook installed in your .git/hooks directory. To trigger the automatic formatting, you have to perform a commit of a modified java file. You can also manually format or validate any file. I inherit an enterprise parent pom, which I cannot modify, with formatting plugin specified, and I need to turn off formatting for my group's project. Either use add a <skip>true</skip> configuration in the inheriting project or set the gcf.skip property to true.