Re: [PATCH] git-commit: add a prepare-commit-msg hook

From: Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
Date: Jan 19, 2008, 15:41 UTC
Message-ID: <143E9431-934C-4711-A580-8AC60A9D472E@lrde.epita.fr>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801191119050.5731@racer.site>

On Jan 19, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>>> On the other hand, if you want to always cause an action before
>>> running a git opeation locally, you do not have to have a hook. You
>>> can just prepare such a message based on GNU ChangeLog and then run
>>> git-commit with -F, both inside your wrapper.
>>
>> I see two other possibilities:
>>
>> 1) [..]
>>
>> 2) [..]
>>
>> 3) [..]
>
> Of course, there is a fourth of "two other" possibilities:
>
> Make a script calling git-commit with "-F - -e" and pipe your  
> generated
> template into it.
>
> Use this script whenever you want to create a new commit.

That's what I've done for over a year (http://repo.or.cz/w/svn- wrapper.git -- it started out as a wrapper around SVN but also works fine with Git) and many people also made their own script to achieve something similar (e.g, vc-dwim http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug- gnulib/2007-10/msg00135.html).

Having such a wrapper in Git would just make our life easier.

-- 
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory