Re: [PATCH] git-commit: add a prepare-commit-msg hook

From: Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
Date: Jan 18, 2008, 19:01 UTC
Message-ID: <D54C77E4-D7FB-4CFC-81A6-AA4A0E66BA5D@lrde.epita.fr>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801181804410.5731@racer.site>

On Jan 18, 2008, at 7:06 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>>
>>> In the message hook, just grep if the template was already  
>>> added.  If it
>>> was, just return.  If it was not, add it.
>>
>> Ah, so you want me to always type ":q!" to exit and unnecessarily
>> complicate the commit-msg hook.  Cunning, but no, thanks.
>
> No, my intention was to avoid complications.  Like introducing yet  
> another
> commit hook.  I like clean, elegant semantics.  I don't like  
> overbloated
> semantics.  That's why I speak up whenever I fear it is entering git.

FWIW I'd love such a hook and I've been writing wrappers around Git commit for over a year now to simulate this. I know many people with whom I work that would also love such a feature.

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Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory