From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2020 15:11:14 GMT
Subject: Re: The commit-msg hook is not invoked by git-merge as specified in documentation
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Kalle Kromann <kalle.kromann@man-es.com> writes:

> And the git version was the latest available from apt-get in WSL, 2.7.4.

Wow, that's ancient.  

"git merge" started calling commit-msg hook f8b86359 (builtin/merge:
honor commit-msg hook for merges, 2017-09-07), which first appeared
in 2.15 (from Oct 2017, that is also ancient in Git timescale) IIUC.