Unset Git Hookspath

I had a nice Git commit hook running in my project, then one day, it stopped working. What happened?

What happened was I installed Husky to manage my hooks. It was an experiment I didn’t stick with. In the process, it unknowingly set a custom Git hookspath:

$ git config core.hookspath
core.hookspath=.husky/_

With this set, Git looks in .husky/ for my hooks, and not in .git/. Once I figured this out, I was able to get my hook back with unset.

$ git config --unset core.hooksPath

The solution I found is common enough that Husky has documented it.

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