On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 13:24 -0500, Joseph Dunne wrote: > Sorry I don't understand your question. The commit-msg hook runs > properly in all cases except when I perform a merge with the --no-ff > option enabled. > It's working just as the documentation says it does (emphasis mine), This hook is invoked by **git commit**, and can be bypassed with the --no-verify option. It takes a single parameter, the name of the file that holds the proposed commit log message. Exiting with a non-zero status causes the git commit to abort. It says that 'commit-msg' hook is invoked only for a "commit" (it's not a MERGE-msg hook you see, it doesn't exist anyway). In case you see the hook getting invoked for a merge then that's an issue, I guess. For what kind of merges do you see the 'commit-msg' hook getting invoked? -- Kaartic