git hooks for IPython add these to your `.git/hooks` For now, we just have `post-checkout` and `post-merge`, both of which just update submodules, so make sure that you have a fully synced repo whenever you checkout or pull. To use these hooks, you can symlink or copy them to your `.git/hooks` directory. In `.git/hooks`, do: ln -s ../../git-hooks/post-checkout post-checkout ln -s ../../git-hooks/post-merge post-merge