diff --git a/git-resolve-script b/git-resolve-script
index 7c0e3d8aa8..000cbb85e3 100755
--- a/git-resolve-script
+++ b/git-resolve-script
@@ -36,19 +36,21 @@ if [ -z "$common" ]; then
 	die "Unable to find common commit between" $merge $head
 fi
 
-if [ "$common" == "$merge" ]; then
+case "$common" in
+"$merge")
 	echo "Already up-to-date. Yeeah!"
 	dropheads
 	exit 0
-fi
-if [ "$common" == "$head" ]; then
+	;;
+"$head")
 	echo "Updating from $head to $merge."
 	git-read-tree -u -m $head $merge || exit 1
 	echo $merge > "$GIT_DIR"/HEAD
 	git-diff-tree -p $head $merge | git-apply --stat
 	dropheads
 	exit 0
-fi
+	;;
+esac
 
 # Find an optimum merge base if there are more than one candidates.
 LF='
diff --git a/git-status-script b/git-status-script
index 2b029545de..ee8f7061ea 100755
--- a/git-status-script
+++ b/git-status-script
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ then
 #'
 fi
 
-if [ "$committable" == "0" ]
-then
+case "$committable" in
+0)
 	echo "nothing to commit"
 	exit 1
-fi
+esac
 exit 0
diff --git a/templates/hooks--update b/templates/hooks--update
index 0726975367..3f38b82a47 100644
--- a/templates/hooks--update
+++ b/templates/hooks--update
@@ -16,10 +16,14 @@ then
 	git-rev-list --pretty "$3"
 else
 	$base=$(git-merge-base "$2" "$3")
-	if [ $base == "$2" ]; then
+	case "$base" in
+	"$2")
 		echo "New commits:"
-	else
+		;;
+	*)
 		echo "Rebased ref, commits from common ancestor:"
+		;;
+	esac
 fi
 git-rev-list --pretty "$3" "^$base"
 fi |