On Thursday 12 October 2006 17:54, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Yes, but only *after* doing the job. That's why I'm looking for a > pre-commit hook. pre-commit is not good either, as it runs *before* the editor pops up. So it can not access the commit message. You ask for a "pre-commit-post-edit" hook, which AFAIK currently is not available in git. > True, as long as you can work within the SCM. The changelog file I'm > talking about is mostly for people who just work with exported trees > (for example, when they download a tarball). Can't you create the Changelog directly before preparing such an tarball? Usually when making a release/snapshot for a typical project, you can not directly take the newest tree from the SCM, but need to generate some files (like configure with automake/autoconf). Josef > > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html