diff --git a/kallithea/lib/vcs/backends/git/repository.py b/kallithea/lib/vcs/backends/git/repository.py
--- a/kallithea/lib/vcs/backends/git/repository.py
+++ b/kallithea/lib/vcs/backends/git/repository.py
@@ -321,15 +321,6 @@ class GitRepository(BaseRepository):
             url = ':///'.join(('file', url))
         return url
 
-    def get_hook_location(self):
-        """
-        returns absolute path to location where hooks are stored
-        """
-        loc = os.path.join(self.path, 'hooks')
-        if not self.bare:
-            loc = os.path.join(self.path, '.git', 'hooks')
-        return loc
-
     @LazyProperty
     def name(self):
         return os.path.basename(self.path)
diff --git a/kallithea/lib/vcs/backends/hg/repository.py b/kallithea/lib/vcs/backends/hg/repository.py
--- a/kallithea/lib/vcs/backends/hg/repository.py
+++ b/kallithea/lib/vcs/backends/hg/repository.py
@@ -492,12 +492,6 @@ class MercurialRepository(BaseRepository
             url = "file:" + urllib.pathname2url(url)
         return url
 
-    def get_hook_location(self):
-        """
-        returns absolute path to location where hooks are stored
-        """
-        return os.path.join(self.path, '.hg', '.hgrc')
-
     def get_changeset(self, revision=None):
         """
         Returns ``MercurialChangeset`` object representing repository's
diff --git a/kallithea/tests/vcs/test_git.py b/kallithea/tests/vcs/test_git.py
--- a/kallithea/tests/vcs/test_git.py
+++ b/kallithea/tests/vcs/test_git.py
@@ -780,9 +780,11 @@ class TestGitHooks(object):
         self.repo = GitRepository(self.repo_directory, create=True)
 
         # Create a dictionary where keys are hook names, and values are paths to
-        # them. Deduplicates code in tests a bit.
-        self.hook_directory = self.repo.get_hook_location()
-        self.kallithea_hooks = dict((h, os.path.join(self.hook_directory, h)) for h in ("pre-receive", "post-receive"))
+        # them in the non-bare repo. Deduplicates code in tests a bit.
+        self.kallithea_hooks = {
+            "pre-receive": os.path.join(self.repo.path, '.git', 'hooks', "pre-receive"),
+            "post-receive": os.path.join(self.repo.path, '.git', 'hooks', "post-receive"),
+        }
 
     def test_hooks_created_if_missing(self):
         """