Merge pull request #1896 from freedomofpress/1673-no-more-hooks

chore: remove pre-commit hooks

client/Makefile

@@ -7,12 +7,6 @@ all: help
 PYTHON := $(if $(shell bash -c "command -v python3.9"), python3.9, python3)
 VERSION_CODENAME ?= bullseye
 
-HOOKS_DIR=.githooks
-
-.PHONY: hooks
-hooks:  ## Configure Git to use the hooks provided by this repository.
-	git config core.hooksPath "$(HOOKS_DIR)"
-
 SEMGREP_FLAGS := --exclude "tests/" --error --strict --verbose
 
 .PHONY: semgrep

client/README.md

@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ poetry install
 ```
 
    * You will need Python 3.9 to run the client. If it's not the default `python3` on your installation, you can set `poetry env use python3.9`.
-   * You may also want to run `make hooks`, which will configure Git to use the hooks found in `.githooks/` to check certain code-quality standards on new commits in this repository.  These checks are also enforced in CI.
 
 4. Run SecureDrop Client
 
@@ -114,8 +113,6 @@ cd securedrop-client
 poetry install
 ```
 
-   * You may also want to run `make hooks`, which will configure Git to use the hooks found in `.githooks/` to check certain code-quality standards on new commits in this repository.  These checks are also enforced in CI.
-
 4. Run SecureDrop Client
 
 ```
@@ -169,7 +166,6 @@ socat TCP4-LISTEN:8081,fork,reuseaddr TCP4:A.B.C.D:8081
    cd securedrop-client
    poetry install
    ```
-   * You may also want to run `make hooks`, which will configure Git to use the hooks found in `.githooks/` to check certain code-quality standards on new commits in this repository.  These checks are also enforced in CI.
 
 5. Run SecureDrop Client
    ```