Re: git commit -v does not removes the patch

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 22, 2008, 20:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20081122201000.GA5903@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081122155541.GC6885@neumann>

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 04:55:41PM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

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> Thanks for the tip.  Junio's suggestion about '# Everything under this
> line is deleted.' could be implemented this way fairly easily (just an
> additional echo in prepare-commit-msg, and other pattern in
> commit-msg).  But 'git commit --no-verify' is indeed a problem.
> Although I never use it explicitly, 'git rebase -i' does so.

One other option would be to munge the editor script instead of using hooks. I.e., something like this:

  $ cat ~/local/bin/git-editor
  #!/bin/sh
  echo '# Everything under this line is deleted' >>"$1"
  git diff --cached >>"$1"
  $EDITOR "$1" || exit $?
  sed -i '/^# Everything under this line is deleted$/Q' "$1"

  $ git config core.editor ~/local/bin/git-editor

Of course, then you end up with the munging for things like "git rebase -i" picking commits, but it should be harmless (since we end up removing it anyway).

-Peff