From: Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:18:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Thoughts on adding another hook to git
Message-ID: <f36b08ee0606121218s6cdcfec2i42482ed5284a45e3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <448DBC2B.1070807@shlrm.org>

On 6/12/06, David Kowis <dkowis@shlrm.org> wrote:
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> Yakov Lerner wrote:
> > On 6/12/06, David Kowis <dkowis@shlrm.org> wrote:
> >> I'd like to be able to modify the commit message before it ends up in
> >> the $EDITOR.
> >
> > Can't you define $EDITOR to point to some script
> > which modifies the file as you wish then calls the
> > real editor on it ?
> >
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> I could, but then anything else that uses $EDITOR would also be affected
> in the same way... Which would produce interesting results.

git-commit sure creates those temp files with
specific naming in specific dir. You could check for
that in EDITOR script. In the script, you could even check
the name of the parent process.

Yakov