Re: Make author and committer available to pre-commit hook

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jul 5, 2010, 11:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20100705114619.GA21146@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinpCDRf_Yhuj2-tdZwmvHk8yna1Xjdtbrmx35CB@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 01:30:46PM +0200, Gisle Aas wrote:

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> I would like to implement a pre-commit hook that validates the
> --author set for the commit.  Our use case is a shared repository of
> configuration info where different persons all commit as root; but we
> want to make sure they override the --author to something sensible.
> 
> What would be the preferred mechanism to pass on this information?  It
> could for instance be arguments to the hook script or via environment
> variables.

It would make sense to me for it to be passed in through the environment using GIT_{AUTHOR,COMMITTER}_{NAME,EMAIL}. You could even pass GIT_AUTHOR_DATE to detect if somebody is using "git commit -c" to get the date from a previous commit.

-Peff