Re: Why does git-commit --template want the template to be modified ?

From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 30, 2012, 14:23 UTC
Message-ID: <CAC9WiBgxZk3pRoj7nuqXdXKHdaHNpx+9h16o5N-vFAGVoH0NMg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1351595365-ner-1835@calvin>

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Tomas Carnecky <tomas.carnecky@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:53:08 +0100, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using git-commit with the --template option. The template I'm
>> given is self sufficient for my purpose but as stated in the
>> documentation, git-commit wants the template to be edited otherwise it
>> aborts the operation.
>>
>> Is it possible to change this ?
>
> It seems you want -F instead of --template.

Yes, but I want git to still parse the log and sanitize it (remove trailing whitespaces, comments ...)

I actually found that "-F --edit" is what I needed.

Thanks both for your answer.

-- 
Francis