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Re: git gui replaces amend message when prepare-commit-msg hook is used

From
Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Date
Jul 4, 2013, 10:21 UTC
Message-ID
<20130704102104.GE17597@paksenarrion.iveqy.com>
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<CAGHpTBJqVazwuNxe1m8ggcCPh9d+9Dkuv32aCqU15AZoamGwag@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 01:03:31PM +0300, Orgad Shaneh wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 12:47:28PM +0300, Orgad Shaneh wrote:
> >> If a prepare-commit-msg hook is used, git gui executes it for "New Commit".
> >>
> >> If the "New Commit" is selected, and then immediately "Amend" (before
> >> the hook returns), when the hook returns the message is replaced with
> >> the one produced by the hook.
> >
> > I don't get it. The message from the hook is replaced with the message
> > from the hook?
> >
> > What I don't get is how you can amend to a commit that doesn't yet
> > exists. How is that possible?
> 
> Did I say anything about a commit that doesn't exist? I have a commit
> which I want to amend. If I click the Amend button before the hook is
> done, this commit's message is replaced (in the editor, not the actual
> commit) with the hook's result.

When you click on amend the prepare-commit-msg hook is runned. But you say that you click amend before "the hook is done". Which hook are you talking about in this case? Are you clicking twice on amend?

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Message 4 of 12 in “git gui replaces amend message when prepare-commit-msg hook is used”
  1. Orgad ShanehJul 4, 2013
  2. Fredrik GustafssonJul 4, 2013
  3. Orgad ShanehJul 4, 2013
  4. Fredrik GustafssonJul 4, 2013
  5. John KeepingJul 4, 2013
  6. Orgad ShanehJul 4, 2013
  7. Fredrik GustafssonJul 4, 2013
  8. John KeepingJul 4, 2013
  9. Orgad ShanehJul 4, 2013
  10. Antoine PelisseJul 4, 2013
  11. Orgad ShanehJul 4, 2013
  12. Antoine PelisseJul 5, 2013

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