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diff --git a/templates/hooks--commit-msg b/templates/hooks--commit-msg
index c5cdb9d7e..4ef86eb24 100644
--- a/templates/hooks--commit-msg
+++ b/templates/hooks--commit-msg
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 # To enable this hook, make this file executable.
 
 # Uncomment the below to add a Signed-off-by line to the message.
+# Doing this in a hook is a bad idea in general, but the prepare-commit-msg
+# hook is more suited to it.
+#
 # SOB=$(git var GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT | sed -n 's/^\(.*>\).*$/Signed-off-by: \1/p')
 # grep -qs "^$SOB" "$1" || echo "$SOB" >> "$1"