On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 09:43:52PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c > index b9ed0374e30..bc5d34bc31f 100644 > --- a/builtin/commit.c > +++ b/builtin/commit.c > @@ -725,11 +725,13 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix, > int clean_message_contents = (cleanup_mode != COMMIT_MSG_CLEANUP_NONE); > int old_display_comment_prefix; > int merge_contains_scissors = 0; > + int invoked_hook; > > /* 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 && run_commit_hook(use_editor, index_file, &invoked_hook, > + "pre-commit", NULL)) > return 0; > > if (squash_message) { > @@ -1052,10 +1054,10 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix, > return 0; > } > > - if (!no_verify && hook_exists("pre-commit")) { > + if (!no_verify && invoked_hook) { > /* > - * Re-read the index as pre-commit hook could have updated it, > - * and write it out as a tree. We must do this before we invoke > + * Re-read the index as the pre-commit-commit hook was invoked > + * and could have updated it. We must do this before we invoke > * the editor and after we invoke run_status above. > */ > discard_cache(); Sanity checking my own understating of this race: if we ran the pre-commit hook and it modified the index, but hook_exists() returns false later on (e.g., because the hook itself went away, the directory became unreadable, etc.), then we won't call discard_cache() when we should have? If so, OK. This definitely seems like a pretty niche race, but independent of that I think the change here is an improvement in readability, and makes it clearer that calling discard_cache() depends on whether or not we *ran* the pre-commit hook, not whether we (still) *have* a pre-commit hook. Thanks, Taylor