officially deprecate the flake8 hook
diff --git a/.pre-commit-hooks.yaml b/.pre-commit-hooks.yaml
index 7a3b380..666a245 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-hooks.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-hooks.yaml
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
description: 'Add # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- to the top of python files'
types: [python]
- id: flake8
- name: Flake8
+ name: Flake8 (deprecated, use gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8)
description: This hook runs flake8.
entry: flake8
language: python
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 30f712d..ee62f2d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -107,9 +107,6 @@
You must provide list of target files as input to it.
Note that this hook WILL remove blank lines and does NOT respect any comments.
-#### `flake8`
-Run flake8 on your python files.
-
#### `forbid-new-submodules`
Prevent addition of new git submodules.
@@ -174,6 +171,7 @@
- `autopep8-wrapper`: instead use
[mirrors-autopep8](https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-autopep8)
- `pyflakes`: instead use `flake8`
+- `flake8`: instead use [upstream flake8](https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8)
### As a standalone package
