Husky 9 seems to setup .git/config hooksPath incorrectly for Windows

[RoystonS]

Context

• Terminal is Windows Command Prompt, using Git for Windows
• Using husky 9.0.2

When running husky install with v8, the .git/config file was correctly modified with:

hooksPath = .husky

When running husky with v9, the .git/config is being modified - on Windows - with:

hooksPath = .husky\\_

(Note the escaped backslash.)

The result is that none of the hooks actually run. It looks like this path should be .husky/_ instead, even on Windows, because Git, when processing these paths, uses Linux forward-slash separators.

Demo / repro

With a brand new repository, installing husky 9 and running husky init gives me a demonstration pre-commit hook containing npm test:

C:\Dev>mkdir huskyplay

C:\Dev>cd huskyplay

C:\Dev\huskyplay>git init
Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Dev/huskyplay/.git/

C:\Dev\huskyplay>npm init
This utility will walk you through creating a package.json file.
...<npm init output elided>...
C:\Dev\huskyplay>npm i -D husky

added 1 package, and audited 2 packages in 1s

1 package is looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

found 0 vulnerabilities

C:\Dev\huskyplay>npx husky init

C:\Dev\huskyplay>git add package.json
warning: in the working copy of 'package.json', LF will be replaced by CRLF the next time Git touches it

C:\Dev\huskyplay>git commit -m "A commit"
[master (root-commit) 1c74e28] A commit
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 package.json

That should have failed, because husky init installs a demonstration pre-commit hook that calls npm test, and by default npm test fails because of the default value of "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",.

This shows that the hooks aren't running.

If I modify .git/config to read hooksPath = husky/_ instead of hooksPath = husky\\_, and then try again:

C:\Dev\huskyplay>git add package-lock.json
warning: in the working copy of 'package-lock.json', LF will be replaced by CRLF the next time Git touches it

C:\Dev\huskyplay>git commit -m "Another commit"

> huskyplay@1.0.0 test
> echo "Error: no test specified" && exit 1

"Error: no test specified"
husky - pre-commit script failed (code 1)

This time we see the expected hook fail.