On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 01:18:03AM +0200, Fabian Ruch wrote: > Specify the git-commit option `--no-verify` to disable the pre-commit > hook when editing the log message. Because `--no-verify` also skips > the commit-msg hook, execute the hook from within > git-rebase--interactive after the commit is created. Fortunately, the > commit message is still available in `$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG` after > git-commit terminates. Caveat: In case the commit-msg hook finds the > new log message ill-formatted, the user is only notified of the > failed commit-msg hook but the log message is used for the commit > anyway. git-commit ought to offer more fine-grained control over > which hooks are executed. Thanks for a nice explanation of the tradeoff. Have you looked at adding an option to git-commit? We already have --no-post-rewrite. I think you would just need: diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c index 5ed6036..f7af220 100644 --- a/builtin/commit.c +++ b/builtin/commit.c @@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ static int quiet, verbose, no_verify, allow_empty, dry_run, renew_authorship; static int no_post_rewrite, allow_empty_message; static char *untracked_files_arg, *force_date, *ignore_submodule_arg; static char *sign_commit; +static int no_pre_commit; /* * The default commit message cleanup mode will remove the lines @@ -661,7 +662,8 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix, /* This checks and barfs if author is badly specified */ determine_author_info(author_ident); - if (!no_verify && run_commit_hook(use_editor, index_file, "pre-commit", NULL)) + if (!no_verify && !no_pre_commit && + run_commit_hook(use_editor, index_file, "pre-commit", NULL)) return 0; if (squash_message) { @@ -1604,6 +1606,7 @@ int cmd_commit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) N_("terminate entries with NUL")), OPT_BOOL(0, "amend", &amend, N_("amend previous commit")), OPT_BOOL(0, "no-post-rewrite", &no_post_rewrite, N_("bypass post-rewrite hook")), + OPT_BOOL(0, "no-pre-commit", &no_pre_commit, N_("bypass pre-commit hook")), { OPTION_STRING, 'u', "untracked-files", &untracked_files_arg, N_("mode"), N_("show untracked files, optional modes: all, normal, no. (Default: all)"), PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, NULL, (intptr_t)"all" }, /* end commit contents options */ though I would also not be opposed to some more uniform hook selection mechanism (e.g., "--no-verify=pre-commit" or something). -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html