How to run local Git project hooks in addition to core.hooksPath global hooks?

Question

Currently I\'m using

git config --global core.hooksPath ~/.git/hooks

to configure global hooks for all my git projects. But if those proje

Answer 1

In order to execute the local hook from within the global one the following script snipped can be used:

if [ -e ./.git/hooks/commit-msg ]; then
    ./.git/hooks/commit-msg "$@"
fi

The global hook runs within the repo directory where the commit is made and can therefore check if a local hook exists in it's .git directory.

Note that you have to adopt the hook name if you are using something different than a commit message hook.