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+### Install pre-commit hooks
+
+We use pre-commit hooks to run checkstyle for Java and Python and format it as per our coding style. 
+
+Please install the following to format the code during the git commit process
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata
+cd openmetadata
+make install_dev
+make install_test precommit_install
+```
+
 ### OpenMetadata API Backend
 
 We use Java for developing OpenMetadata backend server. Following are the key technologies that we use for the backend: