Re: [PATCH] hooks/pre-commit: add example to add Signed-off-by line to message

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Dec 20, 2006, 17:44 UTC
Message-ID: <7vejqufonm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612201835570.19693@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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>> Why SQUASH_MSG?  Doesn't it confuse git-explain when it wants to
>> detect that you are in the middle of a squash merge?
>
> Yes, it confuses git-explain. Which did not existed when I concocted the 
> first (broken) version of this patch. There are only two ways to give 
> commit message templates AFAICT: misusing SQUASH_MSG and misusing 
> MERGE_MSG.

I wonder...

# An example hook script to check the commit log message. # Called by git-commit with one argument, the name of the file # that has the commit message. The hook should exit with non-zero # status after issuing an appropriate message if it wants to stop the # commit. The hook is allowed to edit the commit message file.