My Git hooks work on the command-line but not inside Magit (Magit User Manual)

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A.2.10 My Git hooks work on the command-line but not inside Magit ¶

When Magit calls git it adds a few global arguments including --literal-pathspecs and the git process started by Magit then passes that setting on to other git process it starts itself. It does so by setting the environment variable GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS, not by calling subprocesses with the --literal-pathspecs argument. You can therefore override this setting in hook scripts using unset GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS.