Re: question about COMMIT_EDITMSG crlf

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Jan 14, 2009, 07:18 UTC
Message-ID: <496D91CE.1000504@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <1976ea660901132117l7947157fw2922465a9b3945dc@mail.gmail.com>

Frank Li schrieb:

> I want to use notepad replace default vim at commit message editor.
> git commit will create COMMIT_EDITMSG at .git directory. This file is
> unix text mode.
> Is there any config change it to windows text mode?

No, there isn't. But perhaps you can use WordPad instead of Notepad? There are reports that this worked.

You could also write a wrapper script that transforms the file before it calls Notepad on it (untested):

   #!/bin/bash
   sed -e $'s/\r?$/\r/' < "$1" > .git/tmp$$ &&
   mv .git/tmp$$ "$1" &&
   notepad "$1"

I think git commit removes the trailing CRs automatically, so they don't end up in the commit message.

-- Hannes