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KostaZ
KostaZ

Reputation: 788

How to force "git commit -m" to open editor

I am implementing the git template commit message for the team. I've done it through .git/hooks/prepare-commit-msg hook by adding one line:

cat ".gitmessage" >> "$1"

Also I've configured the below:

git config --local commit.template .gitmessage

Well, the template feature works fine but only when git commit is called without -m flag.

Unfortunately, all the team members work flow is:

git add ...
git commit -m "Some message"

Question: How to force git to always open the editor to edit the message, even when called by git commit -m ... command?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 3782

Answers (2)

Dirigible
Dirigible

Reputation: 1948

-e opens the editor.

git commit -m "message" -e

Upvotes: 12

Fábio Perez
Fábio Perez

Reputation: 26078

You can modify the commit-msg pre-hook to achieve this. For instance, you can check the number of lines in the commit message (check example below); use some regular expressions to check if the template is respected; etc.

#!/bin/bash

# Check if the number of lines is greater than 3
commit_msg_file="${1}"
minimum_lines=3
num_lines=$(wc -l "${commit_msg_file}" | cut -f1 -d' ')

if (( $num_lines < $minimum_lines )); then
    echo >&2 "Error!"
    exit 1
fi

Check this and this for reference.

Upvotes: 1

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