---
title: "How to disable githooks in an Azure DevOps YAML Pipeline"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-disable-githooks-in-an-azure-devops-yaml-pipeline-lz4vxjnev
source_url: https://timdeschryver.dev/blog/how-to-disable-githooks-in-an-azure-devops-yaml-pipeline
type: article
source: "Tim Deschryver"
author: "Tim Deschryver"
published: 2026-05-31T07:47:02.601Z
updated: 2026-06-01T04:00:38.412Z
tags: ["cicd", "git", "azure-devops"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# How to disable githooks in an Azure DevOps YAML Pipeline

**[Tim Deschryver](https://daily.dev/sources/timdeschryver)** · [@timdeschryver](https://daily.dev/timdeschryver) · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Azure DevOps pipelines do not set the CI environment variable by default, which can cause git hooks (like post-checkout hooks managed by Husky) to run unexpectedly and break the pipeline. The fix is to explicitly set CI=true in the YAML pipeline's variables section, which signals to the hook scripts that they should skip execution in a CI context.

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Tags: [#cicd](https://daily.dev/tags/cicd), [#git](https://daily.dev/tags/git), [#azure-devops](https://daily.dev/tags/azure-devops)

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