diff -u b/core/scripts/dev/commit-code-check.sh b/core/scripts/dev/commit-code-check.sh
--- b/core/scripts/dev/commit-code-check.sh
+++ b/core/scripts/dev/commit-code-check.sh
@@ -176,8 +176,8 @@
   vendor/bin/phpcs -ps --runtime-set installed_paths "$TOP_LEVEL/vendor/drupal/coder/coder_sniffer" --standard="$TOP_LEVEL/core/phpcs.xml.dist"
   PHPCS=$?
   if [ "$PHPCS" -ne "0" ]; then
-    # If there are failures set the status to a number other than 0.
-    STATUS=1
+    # If there are failures set the FINAL_STATUS to a number other than 0.
+    FINAL_STATUS=1
   else
     printf "PHPCS: $FILE ${green}passed${reset}\n"
   fi