diff --git a/cookbooks/base/files/usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/prepare-commit-msg b/cookbooks/base/files/usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/prepare-commit-msg
deleted file mode 100644
index 15a8694..0000000
--- a/cookbooks/base/files/usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/prepare-commit-msg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-if [ "$2" = "" ]; then
-  mv $1 $1.tmp
-
-  ID=`git branch | grep ^\* | awk '{print $2}' | cut -f 2 -d "/"`
-
-  cat <<EOF > $1
-
-
-This commit refs/fixes #${ID}.
-#           ^^^^^^^^^^
-EOF
-
-  cat $1.tmp >> $1
-fi
-
-exit 0
diff --git a/cookbooks/base/packages.rb b/cookbooks/base/packages.rb
index 06df598..4e2e790 100644
--- a/cookbooks/base/packages.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/base/packages.rb
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ end
 
 [
   '/usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/pre-commit',
-  '/usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/prepare-commit-msg',
 ].each do |conf|
   remote_file conf do
     user 'root'