 before creating a commit.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The default <em>pre-merge-commit</em> hook, when enabled, runs the
<em>pre-commit</em> hook, if the latter is enabled.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This hook is invoked with the environment variable
<code>GIT_EDITOR=:</code> if the command will not bring up an editor
to modify the commit message.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If the merge cannot be carried out automatically, the conflicts
need to be resolved and the result com