Re: [PATCH] git-svn: add hook to allow modifying the subversion commit message

From: Michael Lutz <michi@icosahedron.de>
Date: Nov 1, 2011, 20:45 UTC
Message-ID: <4EB05A77.4050901@icosahedron.de>
In-Reply-To: <20111101202806.GB29769@dcvr.yhbt.net>

Am 01.11.2011 21:28 schrieb Eric Wong:

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> I'm not convinced this is a good feature to support.  We already have
> --no-metadata to remove git-svn-id: lines and I hate that feature
> because it introduced extra variables for testing/debugging/recovery.
> 
> Metadata in the commit message is important, if you want to remove
> it after-the-fact, there's git-filter-branch.

The actual use case here is to replace a custom hack that adds some info to the git commit message. In this case filter-branch isn't an option because git-svn continuously pulls from the subversion master repository. Additionally, especially for *adding* information, the information might not be available later any more.

The only current metadata (the git-svn-id line) isn't affected by this change as git-svn outputs it separately after the svn commit message that the proposed hook can modify.

I fully realize that this is a rather specialized feature but I wanted to publish it in case somebody else finds a use for this as well.

Michael Lutz