From: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:13:21 GMT
Subject: Re: default commit message for a tree
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:
>
>
>  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