Get commit message in Git hook

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In the pre-commit hook, the commit message usually hasn’t been created yet 1. You probably want to use one of the prepare-commit-msg or commit-msg hooks instead. There’s a nice section in Pro Git on the order in which these hooks are run, and what you typically might do with them.


1. The exception is that the committer might have supplied a commit message with -m, but the message still isn’t accessible to the pre-commit hook, whereas it is to prepare-commit-msg or commit-msg

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