Can I suppress git hook e.g. prepare-commit-msg via git command line argument?

Question

In some situation I want to not have the .git hooks to fire when I am committing a change e.g. prepare-commit-msg

Is there a easy way to suppress them via command line (maybe similar to --no-verify)

Answer 1

The best I could do (and at least this does answer the question) is get the parent's command line and look for '-n' or '--no-verify' passed to it.

if ps -o args= $PPID | grep -E -q ' --no-verify| -n | -n$' ; then
  : # they skipped the commit-msg hook, so skip this hook too!
else
  : # do your hook code here
fi

I'm sure there's better code out there, I just could NOT find any examples!