SerialVersionUID Change Pre-commit Hook

This pre-commit hook requires the serialVersionUID to be changed if the containing file was changed. If a change is not required, simply add or remove an empty comment in the line of the serialVersionUID.

Setup

1. install pre-commit on your machine
2. Add the following lines to your .pre-commit-config.yaml (if not already present):

     - repo: https://github.com/exasol/serial-version-uid-change-pre-commit-hook
       rev: master
       hooks:
         - id: serial-version-uid

3. Install the hooks using:

   pre-commit install

4. Now git commit will fail if a check does not pass. You can also run the checks manual by executing pre-commit.

Limitations

This script does only check on a file system level. Accordingly, it may produce false positives in case a single file contains multiple classes (e.g a nested Exception class).