diff --git a/git-tools/hooks/commit-msg b/git-tools/hooks/commit-msg
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..db31d93698
--- /dev/null
+++ b/git-tools/hooks/commit-msg
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# A hook to append PHPBB3-<ticket_id> to ticket/<ticket_id>
+# branches.
+#
+# This is a commit-msg hook.
+#
+# To install this you can either copy or symlink it to
+# $GIT_DIR/hooks, example:
+#
+# ln -s ../../git-tools/hooks/commit-msg \\
+#   .git/hooks/commit-msg
+
+if grep '^\[ticket/' "$1"
+then
+	# get branch name
+	branch="$(git symbolic-ref HEAD)"
+	
+	# strip off refs/heads/ticket
+	ticket_id="$(echo "$branch" | sed "s/refs\/heads\/ticket\///g")"
+	
+	echo >> "$1"
+	echo "PHPBB3-$ticket_id" >> "$1"
+fi
diff --git a/git-tools/hooks/prepare-commit-msg b/git-tools/hooks/prepare-commit-msg
index ab01f49b5a..033cb187c7 100755
--- a/git-tools/hooks/prepare-commit-msg
+++ b/git-tools/hooks/prepare-commit-msg
@@ -32,10 +32,3 @@ if [ "$2" = "" ]
 then
 	echo "[$branch] $(cat "$1")" > "$1"
 fi
-
-if (echo $branch | grep '^ticket/')
-then
-	ticket_id="$(echo $branch | sed "s/ticket\///g")"
-	echo >> "$1"
-	echo "PHPBB3-$ticket_id" >> "$1"
-fi