hooks not fired by a merge's auto-commit

Using git 1.7.1 it seems that a merge (more specifically the auto-commit) does not fire any of the following hooks: pre-commit prepare-commit-msg commit-msg

Is that by design? Would it be folly to try to patch that behavior?

I humbly request your input before I go trying to "correct" this behavior.

Richard Bronosky <Richard@Bronosky.com> writes:

I would probably call it an unintended design that now has long been established that changing it may break people's existing setups rather badly.

Especially pre-commit hooks that look for and prevent common mistakes from happening for individual developers may not want to run, when you are pulling in other people's work that already has the mess they created. Such problems are often either too late to fix or you are in no position to reject their pull requests. So you would break _my_ workflow (and others who play similar roles as me, making changes themselves and merging others work) if you did such a change.

You _could_ add pre-merge to introduce it as a new feature. For people who want to apply the same check for merges and individual commits (e.g. those who never merge other's work), pre-merge can just invoke pre-commit.

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

Also see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/151297/

j.