Re: [PATCH] Teach git-commit about commit message templates.

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 23, 2007, 10:40 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707231136530.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46A481B4.7000502@midwinter.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Steven Grimm wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > Up until here, I was with you.  But this feels very wrong.
> > 
> > Why not compare COMMIT_MSG to the templatefile, if there is one?  I.e.
> > 
> > test ! -z "$templatefile" && cmp "$GIT_DIR"/COMMIT_MSG "$templatefile" &&
> > 	die "Unchanged message; will not commit"
> >   
> 
> The template can itself have comments -- instructions or explanations of
> fields to fill in, for example -- and since comments have been stripped 
> from COMMIT_MSG at this point, a comparison against such a template 
> would always fail.

Ah, I missed that. But IIRC your patch does not wrap that logic behind test ! -z "$templatefile", right? So this is my modified suggestion:

test ! -z "$templatefile" && {
	grep -vie '^Signed-off-by:' < "$GIT_DIR"/COMMIT_MSG" > "$GIT_DIR"/tmp1
	grep -ve '^#' < "$templatefile" > "$GIT_DIR"/tmp1
	trap 'rm "$GIT_DIR"/tmp[12]' 0
	cmp "$GIT_DIR"/tmp[12] &&
	die "Unchanged message; will not commit"
}

Ciao, Dscho