Re: Arguments to git hooks

From: Marcus Karlsson <mk@acc.umu.se>
Date: May 6, 2012, 19:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20120506191202.GB5725@moj>
In-Reply-To: <CAH-tXsB4PBS_YjW4DCjT6ORmNPomQ8XMPbKx3hxVNH=FyB2u3g@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 12:05:51AM +0530, jaseem abid wrote:

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> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to write a hook '.git/hooks/commit-msg' to be run before
> every commit.
> 
> How can I pass arguments to the script? Now by default the only arg I
> am getting is `.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG'`. I would love to get the list of
> files I tried to commit also into the script so that I can run a lint
> program on it before committing it. How can I get this done?
> 
> V/r,

As far as I can see that's the only argument that git-commit passes on to the commit-msg hook. Can't you just call something like git-status from the hook or do you need the information passed specifically as an argument?

	Marcus