From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:03:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-commit: remove .git/SQUASH_MSG upon successful commit
Message-ID: <7vsl03kbof.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080208095358.25666.qmail@b4daf7aef4dba9.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>

Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> writes:

> After doing a merge --squash, and commit afterwards, the commit message
> template SQUASH_MSG in the git directory is not removed, which means that
> the content of SQUASH_MSG is used as default commit message for all
> subsequent commits.  So have git commit remove the file SQUASH_MSG from
> the git directory upon a successful commit.

It appears that there are a few more differences from what
contrib/examples/git-commit.sh used to do.  For example, the
COMMIT_EDITMSG file used to be removed at around the same place
as the SQUASH_MSG file.