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[PATCH 2/4] hook: name the positional variables

From
Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 11, 2017, 14:11 UTC
Message-ID
<20170711141111.7538-2-kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20170711141111.7538-1-kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>

It's always nice to have named variables instead of positional variables as they communicate their purpose well.

Appropriately name the positional variables of the hook to make it easier to see what's going on.

Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
---
 templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample b/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample
index 279ddc1a7..eb5912163 100755
--- a/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample
+++ b/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample
@@ -19,14 +19,17 @@
 # The second example adds a Signed-off-by line to the message, that can
 # still be edited.  This is rarely a good idea.
 
+COMMIT_MSG_FILE=$1
+COMMIT_SOURCE=$2
+SHA1=$3
 
-# case "$2,$3" in
+# case "$COMMIT_SOURCE,$SHA1" in
 #  ,|template,)
 #    @PERL_PATH@ -i.bak -pe '
 #       print "\n" . `git diff --cached --name-status -r`
-# 	 if /^#/ && $first++ == 0' "$1" ;;
+# 	 if /^#/ && $first++ == 0' "$COMMIT_MSG_FILE" ;;
 #  *) ;;
 # esac
 
 # SOB=$(git var GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT | sed -n 's/^\(.*>\).*$/Signed-off-by: \1/p')
-# grep -qs "^$SOB" "$1" || echo "$SOB" >> "$1"
+# grep -qs "^$SOB" "$COMMIT_MSG_FILE" || echo "$SOB" >> "$COMMIT_MSG_FILE"
-- 
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