Re: [PATCH-v2 4/4] git-commit: add a prepare-commit-msg hook

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > 
> > > The hook is not suppressed by the --no-verify option, and the exit 
> > > status is ignored by git.
> > 
> > Umm.  Should the exit status really be ignored?  What _use_ would it 
> > be then?
> 
> None; in the previous version I used an exit status of 1 to kill the 
> commit. But since this hook, unlike others, is meant to prepare things 
> for the user, the hook itself was not suppressed by --no-verify, only 
> checking the exit status.  Junio thought it was a mess, so I now 
> completely ignore the exit status.
> 
> I just wrote the above sentence because prepare-commit-msg is the only 
> git-commit hook whose exit status is ignored.