From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:33:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add test for the new status message
Message-ID: <1497897210.18850.11.camel@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170619180450.tjldpkltdwqad4ic@sigill.intra.peff.net>


On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 14:04 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:29:49PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
> 
> > 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.
Thanks for the help :)

> 
> 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.