diff --git a/lib/Git/Hooks/CheckJira.pm b/lib/Git/Hooks/CheckJira.pm
index fce6788..8fbd880 100644
--- a/lib/Git/Hooks/CheckJira.pm
+++ b/lib/Git/Hooks/CheckJira.pm
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ use Log::Any '$log';
 use Git::Hooks;
 use Git::Repository::Log;
 use Path::Tiny;
-use List::MoreUtils qw/last_index uniq/;
+use List::MoreUtils qw/any last_index uniq/;
 
 my $PKG = __PACKAGE__;
 my $CFG = __PACKAGE__ =~ s/.*::/githooks./r;
@@ -124,6 +124,16 @@ sub _jql_query {
     return $cache->{jql}{$jql};
 }
 
+sub _skip_logs {
+    my ($git, $commit) = @_;
+
+    my $cache = $git->cache($PKG);
+    $cache->{skip_logs_regexes} = [map {qr/$_/} $git->get_config($CFG => 'skip-logs')]
+        unless exists $cache->{skip_logs_regexes};
+    my $message = $commit->message;
+    return any {$message =~ $_} $cache->{skip_logs_regexes}->@*;
+}
+
 sub _disconnect_jira {
     my ($git) = @_;
     delete $git->cache($PKG)->{jira};
@@ -378,6 +388,8 @@ sub check_commit_msg {
 
     if ($commit->parent() > 1 && $git->get_config_boolean($CFG => 'skip-merges')) {
         return 1;
+    } elsif (_skip_logs($git, $commit)) {
+        return 1;
     } else {
         return _check_jira_keys($git, $commit, $ref, uniq(grok_msg_jiras($git, $commit->message)));
     }
@@ -572,6 +584,17 @@ may configure it in a Git configuration file like this:
     # fixVersion named after the same major.minor version number.
     fixversion = ^refs/heads/(\\d+\\.\\d+)\\.  ^$+
 
+    # Skip commits created by git-merge. Although, it's better to use the
+    # skip-merges directive for this. See below.
+    skip-logs = ^Merge\\s
+    # Skip commits created by git-revert
+    skip-logs = ^(?:Reapply|Revert)\\s
+    # Skip commits with a special mark in them
+    skip-logs = DONT-CheckJira
+
+    # Skip merge commits
+    skip-merges
+
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
 This L<Git::Hooks> plugin hooks itself to the hooks below to guarantee that
@@ -952,6 +975,15 @@ In this case, the visibility isn't restricted at all.
 
 =back
 
+=head2 skip-logs REGEXP
+
+Use this multi-valued directive to make CheckJira don't check
+commits which log messages match any of the REGEXes specified with it.
+
+As the examples in the L<SYNOPSIS> section shows, you may want to make CheckJira
+skip commits automatically created by C<git-revert> commands, or to skip commits
+with a special mark in them.
+
 =head2 skip-merges BOOL
 
 By default, all commits are checked. You can exempt merge commits from being
diff --git a/lib/Git/Repository/Plugin/GitHooks.pm b/lib/Git/Repository/Plugin/GitHooks.pm
index 6fbc039..36c93ca 100644
--- a/lib/Git/Repository/Plugin/GitHooks.pm
+++ b/lib/Git/Repository/Plugin/GitHooks.pm
@@ -607,40 +607,38 @@ sub get_config {
            local $/ = "\c@";
            $git->run(qw/config --null --list/);
         };
+        $config //= '';
 
         if (defined $CONFIG_ENCODING) {
             require Encode;
             $config = Encode::decode($CONFIG_ENCODING, $config);
         }
 
-        if (defined $config) {
-            # The --null option to git-config makes it output a null character
-            # after each option/value. The option and value are separated by a
-            # newline, unless there is no value, in which case, there is no
-            # newline.
-            while ($config =~ /([^\cJ]+)(\cJ[^\c@]*|)\c@/sg) {
-                my ($option, $value) = ($1, $2);
-                if ($option =~ /(.+)\.(.+)/) {
-                    my ($osection, $okey) = (lc $1, lc $2);
-                    if ($value =~ s/^\cJ//) {
-                        ## no critic (ProhibitDeepNests)
-                        if ($value eq 'undef') {
-                            # The 'undef' string is a special mark telling us to
-                            # disregard every previous value already set for
-                            # this variable.
-                            delete $config{$osection}{$okey};
-                        } else {
-                            push @{$config{$osection}{$okey}}, $value;
-                        }
+        # The --null option to git-config makes it output a null character
+        # after each option/value. The option and value are separated by a
+        # newline, unless there is no value, in which case, there is no
+        # newline.
+        while ($config =~ /([^\cJ]+)(\cJ[^\c@]*|)\c@/sg) {
+            my ($option, $value) = ($1, $2);
+            if ($option =~ /(.+)\.(.+)/) {
+                my ($osection, $okey) = (lc $1, lc $2);
+                if ($value =~ s/^\cJ//) {
+                    if ($value eq 'undef') {
+                        # The 'undef' string is a special mark telling us to
+                        # disregard every previous value already set for
+                        # this variable.
+                        delete $config{$osection}{$okey};
                     } else {
-                        # An option without a value is considered a boolean
-                        # true. We mark it explicitly so instead of leaving it
-                        # undefined because Perl would consider it false.
-                        push @{$config{$osection}{$okey}}, 'true';
+                        push @{$config{$osection}{$okey}}, $value;
                     }
                 } else {
-                    croak __PACKAGE__, ": Cannot grok config variable name '$option'.\n";
+                    # An option without a value is considered a boolean
+                    # true. We mark it explicitly so instead of leaving it
+                    # undefined because Perl would consider it false.
+                    push @{$config{$osection}{$okey}}, 'true';
                 }
+            } else {
+                croak __PACKAGE__, ": Cannot grok config variable name '$option'.\n";
             }
         }