Re: [PATCH] Check for -amend as a common wrong usage of --amend.

From: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Date: Jan 24, 2008, 19:25 UTC
Message-ID: <20080124192532.GA3389@hashpling.org>
In-Reply-To: <4798DE6A.1050201@obry.net>

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 07:52:26PM +0100, Pascal Obry wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin a écrit :
> >That is ugly.  In a source file which is by no means specific to 
> >git-commit, you cannot possibly mean to check for "amend".
> 
> Agreed :( I'll try to come with something better.
> 
> Pascal.
>

Would this be better handled by a commit-msg hook.  E.g.:

test "$(cat $1)" = "end" && {
    echo >&2 Commit message is \"end\", possible mis-type of --amend
    echo >&2 Use --no-verify to really commit with this commit message
	exit 1
}