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Re: default commit message for a tree

From
Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 26, 2008, 02:13 UTC
Message-ID
<524f69650804251913s302bf05n2853c267a0475768@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<alpine.LFD.1.10.0804251859100.2813@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Worked beautifully - thanks

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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>  On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Steve French wrote:
>  >
>  > I created a file .git/commit-template with default text as follows:
>  >
>  > [CIFS]
>  >
>  > Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
>
>  You need to use
>
>             git-config commit.template .git/commit-template
>
>  (or use the whole absolute pathname to your template file). The pathname
>  is relative to the working tree, not GIT_DIR.
>
>                 Linus
>
-- 
Thanks,

Steve
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Message 3 of 3 in “default commit message for a tree”
  1. Steve FrenchApr 26, 2008
  2. Linus TorvaldsApr 26, 2008
  3. Steve FrenchApr 26, 2008

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