diff --git a/bin/consider-early-travis-exit.sh b/bin/consider-early-travis-exit.sh
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+# Exits with status 0 if it can be determined that the
+# current PR should not trigger all travis checks.
+#
+# This could be done with a "git ...|grep -vqE" oneliner
+# but as travis triggering is refined it's useful to check
+# travis logs to see how branch files were considered.
+function consider-early-travis-exit {
+  if [ "$TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST" == "false" ]; then
+    echo "Unknown pull request."
+    return
+  fi
+  # Might use this to improve checks on multi-commit PRs.
+  echo "TRAVIS_COMMIT_RANGE=$TRAVIS_COMMIT_RANGE"
+  echo "Branch Files ('T'==trigger tests, ' '=ignore):"
+  echo "---"
+  local triggers=0
+  local invisibles=0
+  for fn in $(git diff --name-only HEAD origin/master); do
+    if [[ "$fn" =~ (\.md$)|(^docs/) ]]; then
+      echo "     $fn"
+      let invisibles+=1
+    else
+      echo "  T  $fn"
+      let triggers+=1
+    fi
+  done
+  echo "---"
+  printf >&2 "%6d files invisible to travis.\n" $invisibles
+  printf >&2 "%6d files trigger travis.\n" $triggers
+  if [ $triggers -eq 0 ]; then
+    echo "No files triggered travis test, exiting early."
+    # see https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-build/blob/master/lib/travis/build/templates/header.sh
+    travis_terminate 0
+  fi
+}
+consider-early-travis-exit
+unset -f consider-early-travis-exit
diff --git a/bin/pre-commit.sh b/bin/pre-commit.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Make sure, we run in the root of the repo and
+# therefore run the tests on all packages
+base_dir="$( cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd )"
+cd "$base_dir" || {
+  echo "Cannot cd to '$base_dir'. Aborting." >&2
+  exit 1
+}
+
+rc=0
+
+function go_dirs {
+  go list -f '{{.Dir}}' ./... | tr '\n' '\0'
+}
+
+function runTest {
+  local name=$1
+  local result="SUCCESS"
+  printf "============== begin %s\n" "$name"
+  $name
+  local code=$?
+  rc=$((rc || $code))
+  if [ $code -ne 0 ]; then
+    result="FAILURE"
+  fi
+  printf "============== end %s : %s code=%d\n\n\n" "$name" "$result" $code
+}
+
+function testGoFmt {
+  diff <(echo -n) <(go_dirs | xargs -0 gofmt -s -d -l)
+}
+
+function testGoImports {
+  diff -u <(echo -n) <(go_dirs | xargs -0 goimports -l)
+}
+
+function testGoVet {
+  go vet -all ./...
+}
+
+function testGoTest {
+  go test -v ./...
+}
+
+function testTutorial {
+  mdrip --mode test --label test ./cmd/kustomize
+}
+
+runTest testGoFmt
+runTest testGoImports
+runTest testGoVet
+runTest testGoTest
+runTest testTutorial
+
+exit $rc