# Passing original commit sha1(s) to prepare-commit-msg hook

1 messages from 2010-07-12 to 2010-07-12. Participants: Michel Lespinasse.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/24372

## Michel Lespinasse, 2010-07-12 10:49

Subject: Passing original commit sha1(s) to prepare-commit-msg hook
Message-ID: <20100712104928.GA22305@google.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100712104928.GA22305%40google.com

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Hi,

I would like to use a prepare-commit-msg hook to automatically edit commit
comments when a rebase is done, using information from the original
commit. For example:

- Adding a commit message line indicating that the commit is a rebase of
  the original commit(s),
- Adding comments based on information stored in git notes on the original
  commit(s).

Currently (I'm using git 1.7.1) the old->new commit sha1 information is
passed to the post-rewrite hook; however by then it is too late to do
anything with commit messages. During "git rebase" the applypatch-msg hook
is called with the original commit sha1 in
.git/rebase-apply/original-commit, and during "git rebase -i" the
prepare-commit-msg hook is called with current status of the rebase
available in .git/rebase-merge/done; however relying on this would seem
very fragile to me.

Would there be support for the idea of making the original commit sha1
information available to commit message hooks ? And if so, any advice how
I should go about implementing this ? (I have little experience with git
codebase).

Thanks,

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.

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