jdx/hk v1.44.1

v1.44.1: post-commit / pre-rebase and faster YADM-style worktrees

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A small patch release fixing two rough edges introduced with the v1.44.0 global-hooks work: post-commit and pre-rebase now have proper hk run subcommands, and HK_STASH_UNTRACKED=false finally skips the untracked-file scan (not just the stash), which makes hk usable on YADM-style dotfile repos where GIT_WORK_TREE is $HOME.

Fixed

• hk run post-commit and hk run pre-rebase are now first-class subcommands (@jdx) #858. Both events are written by hk install, but previously fell through to the generic other handler — so they didn't show up in hk run --help and their arguments got mixed into the positional file collector, occasionally producing confusing Usage: hk run --from-ref <FROM_REF> [FILES]... errors during git rebase. pre-rebase now has a typed <upstream> [branch] signature matching git's spec, and post-commit is a proper no-args handler.

• HK_STASH_UNTRACKED=false now also skips the untracked scan in git status (@jdx) #861. Before this, the flag only suppressed stashing — hk still ran git status --untracked-files=all on every invocation, which could take tens of seconds and emit hundreds of megabytes of output when GIT_WORK_TREE points at a large directory like $HOME (as in YADM). Both the libgit2 and shell-git code paths now honor the setting, so large-worktree users can opt out of the scan entirely. Fixes #860.

  export HK_STASH_UNTRACKED=false
  hk check --all  # no longer scans the entire worktree for untracked files

Documentation

• Getting-started docs now lead with hk install --global as the recommended setup path, since the --from-hook short-circuit added in v1.44.0 makes it safe to enable once per machine (@jdx) #855.
• Added a dismissible cross-site announcement banner to hk.jdx.dev, with an optional expires field so banners auto-hide on their own (@jdx) #857, #862.

Full Changelog: v1.44.0...v1.44.1

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