What is the technical justification behind such as statement? Sharing hooks across the team doesn't equate to forcing a workflow on them. Each developer must manually activate the hooks in some manner in all the cases I've seen. Otherwise, they work as usual without the hooks and without interfering in the workflow in any manner. As a corollary, the hook conditions are enforced in the CI (since it can't be enforced in the developer's system). Git hooks are instead offered as a convenience function to help the developers catch mistakes early and often, before it hits the CI.