From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:04:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach applymbox to keep the Subject: line.
Message-ID: <7vacjeenyi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508181257320.3412@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> Well, Junio has been talking about adding commit hooks. I don't think
> that's been done.

No, notyet.  But tonight.

> The only question is what the hook/trigger should look like. just put
> something like
>
> 	[ -x .git/hooks/applypatch-hook ] &&
> 	     .git/hooks/applypatch-hook "$tree" "$PATCHFILE" || exit
>
> at the line before that "git-apply" perhaps? Then, you could install your 
> own applypatch hook which looks at the message or the patch?

Sounds sensible.  The hook would probably want a handy access to
the commit object as well to catch:

     - the author name may be spelled wrong or has funky
       B-encodings still left.

     - some people might want to even run spellchecker on the
       commit message.

     - lack of S-O-B line.