Re: Thoughts on adding another hook to git

From: Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se>
Date: Jun 13, 2006, 15:26 UTC
Message-ID: <dbfc82860606130826jd9ba61fx26d0b3e42d68c93a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <448EB7B6.4020708@shlrm.org>

On 6/13/06, David Kowis <dkowis@shlrm.org> wrote:

> I'm using vim.

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>   1 # Explicit paths specified without -i nor -o; assuming --only paths...
>   2 #
>   3 # Updated but not checked in:
>   4 #   (will commit)
>   5 #
>   6 #   modified: mail/abook/DETAILS
>   7 #   modified: mail/abook/HISTORY
>
> What I'd like to be able to do is have that "abook" directory name
> automatically added to the top of my commit message before it gets into
> the editor. I can do this with a script (echo ${PWD##*/}) but it'd need
> to be a hook before the editor shows up.

autocmd BufRead .git/COMMIT_MSG call setline(1, expand('%:p:h:h:t'))

But that will of course do that for all commit-messages, so your point is still valid.

  nikolai