pre-commit/pre-commit — pull request #54 by asottile (2014-04-01 04:27:59+00:00)
Title: Remove defaulting behavior of validate_*.  It was complicated and unnecessary

This refers to defaulting to a config file at the root of the repository. This had weird side-effects if this were to ever be wrong about a config file and/or out of date and the config file was unchanged.