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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"pre-commit hook for commitizen-branch broken since 4.15.1","articleBody":"### Description\n\nI can't upgrade my pre-commit hooks from 4.15.0 to 4.15.1 since it would break commitizen-branch.\n\nThe error message is:\n```TEXT\ncommitizen check branch..................................................Failed\n- hook id: commitizen-branch\n- exit code: 23\n\nfatal: ambiguous argument '$PRE_COMMIT_FROM_REF..$PRE_COMMIT_TO_REF': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.\nUse '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:\n'git \u003ccommand\u003e [\u003crevision\u003e...] -- [\u003cfile\u003e...]'\n```\n\n```TEXT\ndefault_install_hook_types:\n  - pre-commit\n  - pre-push\n\nrepos:\n  - repo: https://github.com/commitizen-tools/commitizen\n    rev: v4.15.0\n    hooks:\n      - id: commitizen-branch\n        stages:\n          - pre-push\n          - \n```\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1. Create branch and make a dummy change\n2. Use above configuration\n    1. git add \u0026\u0026 git commit (works)\n    2. git push (works)\n3. Create a new commit, update to any newer version (4.15.1 / 4.16.0 / 4.16.1 / 4.16.2)\n    1. git add \u0026\u0026 git commit (works)\n    2. git push (fails)\n\n### Current behavior\n\nAny version newer than 4.15.0 fails with an error.\n\nConfiguration:\n\n```TEXT\nrepos:\n  - repo: https://github.com/commitizen-tools/commitizen\n    # can be any of: 4.15.1, 4.16.0, 4.16.1, 4.16.2\n    rev: v4.15.1\n    hooks:\n      - id: commitizen-branch\n        stages:\n          - pre-push\n```\n\nError:\n\n```TEXT\ncommitizen check branch..................................................Failed\n- hook id: commitizen-branch\n- exit code: 23\n\nfatal: ambiguous argument '$PRE_COMMIT_FROM_REF..$PRE_COMMIT_TO_REF': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.\nUse '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:\n'git \u003ccommand\u003e [\u003crevision\u003e...] -- [\u003cfile\u003e...]'\n```\n\n\n### Desired behavior\n\nI can update commitizen-branch to use the most recent version (4.16.2).\n\n### Screenshots\n\n\u003cimg width=\"1804\" height=\"287\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/503896c2-e650-4830-8b43-1d05a2b3eff1\" /\u003e\n\n### Environment\n\nNo output for `cz version --report` since I don't have cz installed.\nCommitizen is managed by the pre-commit hook.\n\npre-commit version in case it's relevant: 4.6.0","author":{"url":"https://github.com/Thomas-Neumann","@type":"Person","name":"Thomas-Neumann"},"datePublished":"2026-05-26T13:37:52.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":6},"url":"https://github.com/2003/commitizen/issues/2003"}