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Re: Commit template

From
MHMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Date
May 8, 2005, 19:16 UTC
Message-ID
<1115579764.8949.15.camel@pegasus>
In-Reply-To
<1965.10.10.10.24.1115579256.squirrel@linux1>
Hi Sean,
> This adds the ability to have a per repository commit template.  Create a
> .git/commit.form file containg  "CG: " and other lines and it will be used
> in place of the regular top 3 lines.  This is kind of handy so that you
> can include your signed-off-by: with your email etc.

I think it is a bad idea to take the CG: into it. Let them be created by the cg-commit script, because it knows what to do.

The question now is when we should provide that form. For me it only makes sense if it is not a merge and if no commit message is provided via command line.

Regards
Marcel
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