Hi,
git commit takes a --verbose option, defined as follows:
-v, --verbose
Show unified diff between the HEAD commit and what would be
committed at the
bottom of the commit message template. Note that this diff output
doesn’t
have its lines prefixed with #.
It's very useful for making sure you're committing the right thing.
Unfortunately, it seems that the diff output isn't stripped before the
commit message is fed to the commit-msg hook.
I was committing a change to a README file, and the diff context
contained the line " * for the cppunittest needed:" (followed by a line
beginning with a "+" marking an added line). So, commit-msg saw a line
which starts with whitespace, followed by a star, with a colon in it and
rejected my commit message:
Reason: Please don't use whitespace in front of '* file: Description.' entries.
I don't know whether it's possible to tweak something so that the hook
receives the message without the unified diff; otherwise, perhaps the
hook should stop reading lines past something which looks like a unified
diff header.
Regards,
--
Will
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