From: Benoit Sigoure Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:01:18 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-commit: add a prepare-commit-msg hook Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Jan 18, 2008, at 7:06 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > 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. -- Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna EPITA Research and Development Laboratory