Use pre-commit-uv to speed up pre-commit hook environment installs

Author: tpvasconcelos

docs/reference/changelog.md

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Unreleased changes
 ### Developer Experience
 
 - Migrate all development dependencies from `requirements/*.txt` files to PEP 735 dependency groups in `pyproject.toml` ({gh-pr}`388`)
+- Use `pre-commit-uv` to speed up pre-commit hook environment installs ({gh-pr}`396`)
 
 ### CI/CD
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -134,8 +134,10 @@ local-dev = [
     "setuptools-scm>=8",
     # Tox
     "tox",
-    # pre-commit
+    # pre-commit (the pre-commit-uv plugin makes pre-commit
+    # build its hook environments with uv - faster installs)
     "pre-commit",
+    "pre-commit-uv",
     # Releases are still a manual process that
     # requires the use of bumpversion locally
     "bumpversion",

tox.ini

@@ -73,7 +73,11 @@ passenv =
     XDG_CACHE_HOME
     SSH_AUTH_SOCK
 skip_install = true
-deps = pre-commit
+deps =
+    pre-commit
+    # Plugin that makes pre-commit build its hook
+    # environments with uv (faster installs)
+    pre-commit-uv
 commands =
     all:   pre-commit run --all-files --show-diff-on-failure {posargs:}
     quick: pre-commit run ruff-format --all-files