From: Teemu Likonen Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:36:36 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add commit log message spell checking feature. Message-ID: <87aaupj1q3.fsf@mithlond.arda> In-Reply-To: <20100228163339.GA9399@coredump.intra.peff.net> * 2010-02-28 11:33 (-0500), Jeff King wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 01:03:00PM +1300, Steven Drake wrote: >> Add 'git commit --spell' to run a spell checker on commit log >> message. The `commit.spell` configuration variable can be used to >> enable the spell checker by default and can be turned off by >> '--no-spell'. > > Isn't this exactly the sort of thing the commit-msg hook is for? > Though personally I would probably just invoke interactive > spell-checking from the editor. I agree that it's a job for user's text editor.