diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 311841f9bed..6be9de41ae8 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@
 /gitweb/static/gitweb.min.*
 /config-list.h
 /command-list.h
+/hook-list.h
 *.tar.gz
 *.dsc
 *.deb
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ae256672780..ed06b4e9634 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -824,6 +824,8 @@ XDIFF_LIB = xdiff/lib.a
 
 GENERATED_H += command-list.h
 GENERATED_H += config-list.h
+GENERATED_H += hook-list.h
+
 .PHONY: generated-hdrs
 generated-hdrs: $(GENERATED_H)
 
@@ -2231,7 +2233,9 @@ git$X: git.o GIT-LDFLAGS $(BUILTIN_OBJS) $(GITLIBS)
 
 help.sp help.s help.o: command-list.h
 
-builtin/help.sp builtin/help.s builtin/help.o: config-list.h GIT-PREFIX
+hook.sp hook.s hook.o: hook-list.h
+
+builtin/help.sp builtin/help.s builtin/help.o: config-list.h hook-list.h GIT-PREFIX
 builtin/help.sp builtin/help.s builtin/help.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = \
 	'-DGIT_HTML_PATH="$(htmldir_relative_SQ)"' \
 	'-DGIT_MAN_PATH="$(mandir_relative_SQ)"' \
@@ -2264,6 +2268,10 @@ command-list.h: $(wildcard Documentation/git*.txt)
 		$(patsubst %,--exclude-program %,$(EXCLUDED_PROGRAMS)) \
 		command-list.txt >$@+ && mv $@+ $@
 
+hook-list.h: generate-hooklist.sh Documentation/githooks.txt
+	$(QUIET_GEN)$(SHELL_PATH) ./generate-hooklist.sh \
+		>$@+ && mv $@+ $@
+
 SCRIPT_DEFINES = $(SHELL_PATH_SQ):$(DIFF_SQ):$(GIT_VERSION):\
 	$(localedir_SQ):$(NO_CURL):$(USE_GETTEXT_SCHEME):$(SANE_TOOL_PATH_SQ):\
 	$(gitwebdir_SQ):$(PERL_PATH_SQ):$(SANE_TEXT_GREP):$(PAGER_ENV):\
diff --git a/builtin/bugreport.c b/builtin/bugreport.c
index 941c8d5e270..a7a1fcb8a7a 100644
--- a/builtin/bugreport.c
+++ b/builtin/bugreport.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include "help.h"
 #include "compat/compiler.h"
 #include "hook.h"
+#include "hook-list.h"
 
 
 static void get_system_info(struct strbuf *sys_info)
@@ -41,39 +42,7 @@ static void get_system_info(struct strbuf *sys_info)
 
 static void get_populated_hooks(struct strbuf *hook_info, int nongit)
 {
-	/*
-	 * NEEDSWORK: Doesn't look like there is a list of all possible hooks;
-	 * so below is a transcription of `git help hooks`. Later, this should
-	 * be replaced with some programmatically generated list (generated from
-	 * doc or else taken from some library which tells us about all the
-	 * hooks)
-	 */
-	static const char *hook[] = {
-		"applypatch-msg",
-		"pre-applypatch",
-		"post-applypatch",
-		"pre-commit",
-		"pre-merge-commit",
-		"prepare-commit-msg",
-		"commit-msg",
-		"post-commit",
-		"pre-rebase",
-		"post-checkout",
-		"post-merge",
-		"pre-push",
-		"pre-receive",
-		"update",
-		"post-receive",
-		"post-update",
-		"push-to-checkout",
-		"pre-auto-gc",
-		"post-rewrite",
-		"sendemail-validate",
-		"fsmonitor-watchman",
-		"p4-pre-submit",
-		"post-index-change",
-	};
-	int i;
+	const char **p;
 
 	if (nongit) {
 		strbuf_addstr(hook_info,
@@ -81,9 +50,12 @@ static void get_populated_hooks(struct strbuf *hook_info, int nongit)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(hook); i++)
-		if (hook_exists(hook[i]))
-			strbuf_addf(hook_info, "%s\n", hook[i]);
+	for (p = hook_name_list; *p; p++) {
+		const char *hook = *p;
+
+		if (hook_exists(hook))
+			strbuf_addf(hook_info, "%s\n", hook);
+	}
 }
 
 static const char * const bugreport_usage[] = {
diff --git a/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt b/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt
index 171b4124afe..fd1399c440f 100644
--- a/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -624,6 +624,13 @@ if(NOT EXISTS ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/config-list.h)
 			OUTPUT_FILE ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/config-list.h)
 endif()
 
+if(NOT EXISTS ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/hook-list.h)
+	message("Generating hook-list.h")
+	execute_process(COMMAND ${SH_EXE} ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/generate-hooklist.sh
+			WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}
+			OUTPUT_FILE ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/hook-list.h)
+endif()
+
 include_directories(${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})
 
 #build
diff --git a/generate-hooklist.sh b/generate-hooklist.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..6d4e56d1a31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/generate-hooklist.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Usage: ./generate-hooklist.sh >hook-list.h
+
+cat <<EOF
+/* Automatically generated by generate-hooklist.sh */
+
+static const char *hook_name_list[] = {
+EOF
+
+sed -n -e '/^~~~~*$/ {x; s/^.*$/	"&",/; p;}; x' \
+	<Documentation/githooks.txt |
+	LC_ALL=C sort
+
+cat <<EOF
+	NULL,
+};
+EOF
