# [PATCH] Make default pre-commit hook less noisy

2 messages from 2008-01-14 to 2008-01-14. Participants: Jean-Luc Herren, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/11622

## Jean-Luc Herren, 2008-01-14 21:47

Subject: [PATCH] Make default pre-commit hook less noisy
Message-ID: <478BD87E.7030606@gmx.ch>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/478BD87E.7030606%40gmx.ch

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This hook thought to have found a conflict marker any time it saw
a 7-character combination of any of the characters '<>=' at the
beginning of a line, whereas it should only look for the *same*
character to appear repeatedly.

Also, restrict it to match exactly 7 times, to avoid matching the
underlining with '='-characters often used in documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch>
---
As far as I know, this will still properly match all conflict
markers, even those by cvs or svn.

 templates/hooks--pre-commit |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/templates/hooks--pre-commit b/templates/hooks--pre-commit
index 7092bae..b25dce6 100644
--- a/templates/hooks--pre-commit
+++ b/templates/hooks--pre-commit
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ perl -e '
 	    if (/^\s* \t/) {
 		bad_line("indent SP followed by a TAB", $_);
 	    }
-	    if (/^(?:[<>=]){7}/) {
+	    if (/^([<>])\1{6} |^={7}$/) {
 		bad_line("unresolved merge conflict", $_);
 	    }
 	}
-- 
1.5.3.8

```

## Junio C Hamano, 2008-01-14 21:51

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make default pre-commit hook less noisy
Message-ID: <7vzlv8hy8e.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vzlv8hy8e.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org
In-Reply-To: <478BD87E.7030606@gmx.ch>

```
Jean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch> writes:

> This hook thought to have found a conflict marker any time it saw
> a 7-character combination of any of the characters '<>=' at the
> beginning of a line, whereas it should only look for the *same*
> character to appear repeatedly.

I think itt looks good.  Thanks.

```
