Document PRE_COMMIT environment variable#1071
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I figured opening a PR was approximately the same effort as asking if this should be documented 🙂 |
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I think this information probably makes more sense in the "creating new hooks" section as just a little note rather than a completely new section here? |
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👍 agreed, moved it there with the latest commit |
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Document this variable, exposed since `v2.5.0`[1], as a way to determine if `pre-commit` is running. Because It took a bit of searching in the `pre-commit` repo to discover the existence of this variable. Link: pre-commit/pre-commit@2f25085 [1]
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Document this variable, exposed since
v2.5.0[1], as a way to determine ifpre-commitis running. Because It took a bit of searching in thepre-commitrepo to discover the existence of this variable.Link: pre-commit/pre-commit@2f25085 [1]