From: Seth Raymond Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:43:38 GMT Subject: commit-msg hook possible bad behavior with -F Message-ID: If a commit is invoked with -F , indicating that the commit message should be read from an existing file, the the prepare-commit-msg and commit-msg hooks do not operate on . The first argument to the hook is always /COMMIT_EDITMSG, rather than . Am I wrong in this line of thinking? -Seth