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authorKaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>2017-07-11 14:30:54 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-07-12 20:21:07 (GMT)
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hook: add a simple first example
Add a simple example that replaces an outdated example that was removed. This ensures that there's at the least a simple example that illustrates what could be done using the hook just by enabling it. Also, update the documentation. Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/githooks.txt3
-rwxr-xr-xtemplates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample9
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt
index 43f3555..623ed1a 100644
--- a/Documentation/githooks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt
@@ -121,6 +121,9 @@ it is not suppressed by the `--no-verify` option. A non-zero exit
means a failure of the hook and aborts the commit. It should not
be used as replacement for pre-commit hook.
+The sample `prepare-commit-msg` hook that comes with Git removes the
+help message found in the commented portion of the commit template.
+
commit-msg
~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample b/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample
index 87d7705..dc707e4 100755
--- a/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample
+++ b/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample
@@ -9,20 +9,23 @@
#
# To enable this hook, rename this file to "prepare-commit-msg".
-# This hook includes two examples.
+# This hook includes three examples. The first one removes the
+# "# Please enter the commit message..." help message.
#
-# The first includes the output of "git diff --name-status -r"
+# The second includes the output of "git diff --name-status -r"
# into the message, just before the "git status" output. It is
# commented because it doesn't cope with --amend or with squashed
# commits.
#
-# The second example adds a Signed-off-by line to the message, that can
+# The third example adds a Signed-off-by line to the message, that can
# still be edited. This is rarely a good idea.
COMMIT_MSG_FILE=$1
COMMIT_SOURCE=$2
SHA1=$3
+@PERL_PATH@ -i.bak -ne 'print unless(m/^. Please enter the commit message/..m/^#$/)' "$COMMIT_MSG_FILE"
+
# case "$COMMIT_SOURCE,$SHA1" in
# ,|template,)
# @PERL_PATH@ -i.bak -pe '