From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:37:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hooks/pre-commit: add example to add Signed-off-by line to message
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612201835570.19693@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vmz5ifpbv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Andy Parkins wrote:
> >
> >> Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
> >
> > Acked-by: Johannes E. Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> >
> > Ciao,
> > Dscho
> 
> Why SQUASH_MSG?  Doesn't it confuse git-explain when it wants to
> detect that you are in the middle of a squash merge?

Yes, it confuses git-explain. Which did not existed when I concocted the 
first (broken) version of this patch. There are only two ways to give 
commit message templates AFAICT: misusing SQUASH_MSG and misusing 
MERGE_MSG.

Ciao,
Dscho