Magit fail git pre-commit hook with No such file or directory

Question

I have a git pre-commit hook to run the unittest locally on my GNU/Linux manchine. The content of my pre-commit file is

#!/bin/bash

source activate project && python manage.py test && pylint project

And my .git/config has

[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = true
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
    hooksPath = /path/to/project/hooks

git commit runs without problem from the command line.

$ git --version
git version 2.14.1
$ git commit -am "Some message"
Creating test database for alias 'default'...
System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
............................................................................................
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 92 tests in 12.873s

OK
Destroying test database for alias 'default'...

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Your code has been rated at 10.00/10 (previous run: 10.00/10, +0.00)

[395 c7d2b5c] Some message
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

but Magit fails with

  1 git … commit --
/path/to/project/hooks/pre-commit: line 3: activate: No such file or directory

I'm using conda as a virtual environment manager and source activate project is their recommendation.

Answer 1

Following this advice by Jonas Bernoulli solved my problem: install https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell and follow the instructions on what to put in ~/.emacs (or, preferably, ~/.emacs.d/init.el).