Defensive Commits are a strategy for pushing commit to upstream repos that runs part of the ci/cd pipeline locally using git hooks. It fails the hook fails. This allows you to catch integration errors and get feedback quickly. This strategy works best with trunk-based development and ci/cd teams, because it helps avoid breaking the build and reduces dumb mistakes from even being pushed up to main. At Coqui Health, we’ve implemented this strategy successfully and this is now the default way ...
