Document pre-commit hook

Text adapted from contributions to `case-utils` by @kchason.

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* casework/CASE-Utilities-Python#37

Signed-off-by: Alex Nelson <alexander.nelson@nist.gov>

Author: ajnelson-nist

CONTRIBUTE.md

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 # Contributing to DFXML's Python code base
 
 
+## Pre-commit
+
+This project uses [the `pre-commit` tool](https://pre-commit.com/) for linting.
+
+`pre-commit` hooks into Git's commit machinery to run a set of linters and static analyzers over each change. To install `pre-commit` into Git's hooks, run one (not both) of the following sets of commands:
+
+```bash
+pip install pre-commit
+pre-commit --version
+pre-commit install
+```
+
+Or:
+
+```bash
+make
+```
+
+
 ## Installable tools versus in-place scripts
 
 The [`dfxml/bin/`](dfxml/bin/) directory contains scripts for interacting with DFXML.  Some of the tools are installed in the command-line `$PATH` when the `dfxml` package is installed.