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Program hangs if repo uses prepare-commit-hook that requires user input

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Description

**Describe the bug**
If a repo implements a prepare-commit-msg which requires user input gitui will hang on various operations that trigger the hook (commit, rebase, merge, cherry pick).

This is a pretty common pattern in repos using commitizen as one of the options that the project recommends is using [prepare-commit-msg](https://github.com/commitizen/cz-cli#traditional-git-hooks)

**To Reproduce**

minimal example here: https://github.com/jaredmcateer/cz-gitui

Steps to reproduce the behavior:
1. Open repo with prepare-commit-msg that requires user input
2. Add/Modify a file
3. Stage file
4. Go to 'staged change' in gitui
5. Press 'c'
7. Observe gitui is unresponsive

**Screenshots**

In your processes you will see something like this:
![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/eb9f5163-eafa-427b-b4e6-51c9efdc4714)

**Context (please complete the following information):**
- OS/Distro + Version: tested on Mac OS Sonoma 14.7.1 & Pop_OS! 22.0.4 LTS
- GitUI Version: gitui nightly 2025-03-04 ()
- Rust version: rustc 1.82.0 (f6e511eec 2024-10-15)

**Additional context**
Lazygit also suffers from this, and the current workaround is to override all the commit-like commands with custom keybindings to disable Husky, but that will also kill other useful things like pre-commit hooks that run tests/linters.

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