Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] git-gui: Use commit message template

> Hi,
> 
> This series is a revival of [0] which was pointed to me by [1]. I have
> made some changes to the patch by Martin.
> 
> - The rescan call in proc commit_committree is removed. git-gui goes to
>   great lengths to avoid a rescan after commit by calculating the status
>   of the files in memory. It makes sense to keep it that way. The
>   purpose of the rescan was to reload the commit template in the buffer
>   after a commit. The rescan path handles that, but we can do that
>   manually as well.
> 
> - Add a call to load the commit message template in 'rescan' directly
>   instead of relying on 'run_prepare_commit_msg_hook' to do it when the
>   commit-msg hook does not exist.
> 
> In addition, patch 1/2 fixes a small bug in the commit message buffer
> backup logic that would be exposed by using the template mechanism. If
> you load git-gui, do some things, and exit it. Then if you change the
> commit message template (or even remove it), and open git-gui again it
> will use the previous message for the first commit and then use the new
> one from the next commit onwards.
> 
> This happens because if the commit message buffer in not empty, git-gui
> saves the contents to save accidental loss of data. And when opening it
> again, the saved message (which is the older template) obviously gets
> priority.
> 
> [0] https://public-inbox.org/git/1530608011429.41203@loewensteinmedical.de/T/
> [1] https://github.com/prati0100/git-gui/issues/24

> Martin Schön (1):
>   git-gui: use commit message template
> 
> Pratyush Yadav (1):
>   git-gui: Only touch GITGUI_MSG when needed
> 
>  git-gui.sh     | 12 +++++++++---
>  lib/commit.tcl |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
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