diff --git a/.githooks/pre-commit b/.githooks/pre-commit
index 35c929d..6149c7c 100755
--- a/.githooks/pre-commit
+++ b/.githooks/pre-commit
@@ -37,10 +37,14 @@ if [ -n "$staged_pubspec" ] || [ -n "$staged_templates" ]; then
     git add pubspec.yaml
 fi
 
-# 3. Fix and format Dart files if any were staged
+# 3. Sort imports in and format the staged Dart files
+#
+# No `dart fix --apply`. It analyzed the whole project to apply a handful of
+# fixes — ~9 s, most of what was left of a commit — and rewrote files that were
+# not staged. The lints it fixes show in the IDE and block at pre-push; run
+# `dart fix --apply` yourself when they come up.
 if [ -n "$staged_dart_files" ]; then
-    echo "🧹 Applying automated dart fixes and sorting imports..."
-    dart fix --apply
+    echo "🧹 Sorting imports..."
 
     # Sort imports in the STAGED files only. `--folders lib` rewrote every file
     # under lib/ on every commit, and better_imports renders long `show` clauses
@@ -49,8 +53,8 @@ if [ -n "$staged_dart_files" ]; then
     staged_csv=$(printf '%s,' $staged_dart_files | sed 's/,$//')
     dart pub global run better_imports --silent --relative --files "$staged_csv"
 
-    # Format LAST. `dart fix` and better_imports both rewrite code, and their
-    # output is not formatter-clean at page_width:100. Formatting before them
+    # Format LAST. better_imports rewrites code, and its output is not
+    # formatter-clean at page_width:100. Formatting before it
     # (or not at all) is how the tree drifted to 145 unformatted files and kept
     # CI's "Check formatting" step red for a month.
     echo "🎨 Formatting staged Dart files..."
diff --git a/setup_hooks.sh b/setup_hooks.sh
index 0602689..9afece5 100755
--- a/setup_hooks.sh
+++ b/setup_hooks.sh
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 # What you get:
 #   pre-commit — formats staged Dart and sorts its imports; syncs templates
 #                into pubspec.yaml and sorts dependencies when those changed.
-#                A few seconds; runs on every commit. No analysis — that is
-#                the IDE's and pre-push's.
+#                About a second; runs on every commit. No analysis or
+#                `dart fix` — those are the IDE's and pre-push's.
 #   pre-push   — `dart analyze` and the tests, the same gates CI runs, for
 #                what the push changes: none for docs, the packages only when
 #                packages/ changed.