From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:53:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] hook: add signature using "interpret-trailers"
Message-ID: <xmqqfue45asd.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <2e957be5-980b-1d7b-812f-bf18d12313d6@ramsayjones.plus.com>

Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> writes:

>> It works well in all cases except when the user invokes
>> "git commit" without any arguments. In that case manually
>> add a new line after the first line to ensure it's consistent
>> with the output of "-s" option.
>> 
>
> Again, s/signature/sign-off/g, or similar (including subject line).

Thanks for being a careful reader.

>> Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample | 6 +++++-
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample b/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample
>> index 708f0e92c..a15d6d634 100755
>> --- a/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample
>> +++ b/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample
>> @@ -32,4 +32,8 @@ SHA1=$3
>>  # esac
>>  
>>  # SOB=$(git var GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT | sed -n 's/^\(.*>\).*$/Signed-off-by: \1/p')
>> -# grep -qs "^$SOB" "$COMMIT_MSG_FILE" || echo "$SOB" >> "$COMMIT_MSG_FILE"
>> +# git interpret-trailers --in-place --trailer "$SOB" "$COMMIT_MSG_FILE"
>> +# if test -z "$COMMIT_SOURCE"
>> +# then
>> +#   @PERL_PATH@ -i.bak -pe 'print "\n" if($first_line++ == 0)' "$COMMIT_MSG_FILE"
>> +# fi

I think we should do

	print "\n" if !$first_line++

for brevity (and also avoid "if(" that lacks SP) here.