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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 19, 2008, 11:20 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801191119050.5731@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <4791C3A8.7000308@gnu.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

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> > On the other hand, if you want to always cause an action before 
> > running a git opeation locally, you do not have to have a hook. You 
> > can just prepare such a message based on GNU ChangeLog and then run 
> > git-commit with -F, both inside your wrapper.
> 
> I see two other possibilities:
> 
> 1) [..]
>
> 2) [..]
>
> 3) [..]

Of course, there is a fourth of "two other" possibilities:

Make a script calling git-commit with "-F - -e" and pipe your generated template into it.

Use this script whenever you want to create a new commit.

Hth, Dscho