(lucene) branch main updated: Update documentation in main branch for installing precommit check whe you want to work on older release branches (#15862)

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     new 2e3f36a5d58 Update documentation in main branch for installing precommit check whe you want to work on older release branches (#15862)
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commit 2e3f36a5d58842050f12bca473b29d52b12fa1fb
Author: Uwe Schindler <us...@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Sun Mar 22 21:13:48 2026 +0100

    Update documentation in main branch for installing precommit check whe you want to work on older release branches (#15862)
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 help/precommit.txt | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/help/precommit.txt b/help/precommit.txt
index 5bb7413069c..b9577aa472e 100644
--- a/help/precommit.txt
+++ b/help/precommit.txt
@@ -7,14 +7,18 @@ Checks use the prek tool:
   * src: https://github.com/j178/prek
   * docs: https://prek.j178.dev/
 
-To run checks before committing:
+To run checks automatically before committing:
 
 uvx prek
 
 To install a precommit hook so this happens automatically:
 
 uv tool install prek
-prek install
+prek install --allow-missing-config
+
+Please note: The "--allow-missing-config" option is only required if you
+intend to also work on older release branches that do not yet have support
+for prek.
 
 To exhaustively force-check all files (like CI does):