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Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

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JMJeremy Morton <admin@game-point.net>
Date
Apr 28, 2014, 09:01 UTC
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<20140428.084543.1615507400056684596.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
On 28/04/2014 07:45, Christian Couder wrote:
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> Yes, it's possible. Yesterday, I sent the following patch:
>
> [RFC/PATCH 2/2] trailer: add examples to the documentation
>
> and it shows a commit-msg hook to do something like that:
>
> $ cat>.git/hooks/commit-msg<<EOF
> #!/bin/sh
> git interpret-trailers --trim-empty --trailer "git-version: \$(git describe)" "\$1">  "\$1.new"
> mv "\$1.new" "\$1"
> EOF
> $ chmod +x .git/hooks/commit-msg
>
> I think you just need to use the following if you want the branch
> instead of the git version:
>
> git interpret-trailers --trim-empty --trailer "git-branch: \$(git name-rev --name-only HEAD)" "\$1">  "\$1.new"
>
> It could even be simpler if there was an option (which has already
> been discussed) that made it possible to modify the file in
> place. This way one would not need the 'mv "\$1.new" "\$1"' command.
>
> Best,
> Christian.

This is certainly going in the right direction, but it's still implemented as a hook on a per-repo basis. Do you foresee a point in the future where these trailers could be added through simple one-liners in someone's global .gitconfig file? That's where I'd really like to get to.

-- 
Best regards,
Jeremy Morton (Jez)
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