On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 01:30:46PM +0200, Gisle Aas wrote:
> I would like to implement a pre-commit hook that validates the
> --author set for the commit. Our use case is a shared repository of
> configuration info where different persons all commit as root; but we
> want to make sure they override the --author to something sensible.
>
> What would be the preferred mechanism to pass on this information? It
> could for instance be arguments to the hook script or via environment
> variables.
It would make sense to me for it to be passed in through the environment
using GIT_{AUTHOR,COMMITTER}_{NAME,EMAIL}. You could even pass
GIT_AUTHOR_DATE to detect if somebody is using "git commit -c" to get
the date from a previous commit.
-Peff
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