`prek install -q` does not enable quiet mode?

[stevenzyang]

Summary

According to the docs, it seems like prek install -q should install prek with quiet mode, where only failed hooks are output: https://prek.j178.dev/cli/#prek-install--quiet

However even after doing this, I still see the full output:

> prek -q install

> git commit -am "test"
check for added large files..............................................Passed
trim trailing whitespace.................................................Passed
fix end of files.........................................................Passed
check for merge conflicts................................................Passed
ruff (legacy alias)..................................(no files to check)Skipped
ruff format..........................................(no files to check)Skipped
Detect hardcoded secrets.................................................Passed
[sy/prek ef13b2d3] test
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Willing to submit a PR?

• Yes — I’m willing to open a PR to fix this.

Platform

Darwin 24.6.0 arm64

Version

prek 0.3.3 (c741c8c 2026-02-15)

.pre-commit-config.yaml

n/a

Log file

n/a

[j178]

-q is a generic flag, it just puts the prek install command itself into quiet mode, not the script it installs.

Right now, there’s no way to run the installed script in quiet mode. For now, you’ll need to modify the script manually.

[deX-de]

You could use the PREK_QUIET environment variable to only output failed hooks i.e. with export PREK_QUIET="1"

In combination with direnv this works quite well.

[j178]

Ah yeah, PREK_QUIET is one way to do it 👍

[stevenzyang]

Thoughts on allowing people to configure this in prek.toml?