If I have a feature branch based on some old commit in develop or master, and I merge in develop or master, the pre-push hooks will run over all the merge commit files. Would it be possible to add a setting to provide a known "good" branch whose changes can be ignored? This is potentially useful as you gradually roll out a new check on a codebase, or if only some people have hooks installed.

A current workaround for this is by manually doing something like git diff $(git merge-base HEAD develop) --name-only [--diff-filter=ACMR?] in custom hooks, but I'd like to do this for other hooks I haven't written. The effect of this setting would just be to shrink the list of files provided to the hook, so their code wouldn't change.

Example repo: https://github.com/prem-nuro/precommit-issue-860