Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add test for the new status message
On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 14:04 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:29:49PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
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> > Is there a way to test for the "Initial commit" message in the
> > commit
> > template?
>
> You can do "git commit --dry-run", which produces the template on
> stdout.
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> That should be good enough for our purposes here, as it's the same
> code
> that produces the text that goes into the editor template. If you
> really
> wanted to test what the editor sees, you could do something like:
>
> GIT_EDITOR='cat >editor-input' git commit
>
> but I don't think it's worth the trouble.
>
That's right. I thinks it's not worth the trouble too.