Re: git commit -C vs. prepare-commit-msg hook

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2010/11/2 SZEDER Gábor <szeder@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> Just noticed (read: got bitten by ;) that 'git commit' runs the
> prepare-commit-msg hook even if it was invoked with the -C option.
> This seems contradictory to me, because 'git commit -C' is to reuse an
> already existing log message (and author info) as is, whereas
> prepare-commit-msg is there to automatically edit the commit message.
>

Can your hook look for the presence of the third command line argument
to catch this case?  Granted, you won't be able to tell the difference
between -C and -c or --amend.

> Is this desired and I'm missing something, or is this a bug?  (or just
> accidental, but we can't do anything about it anyway because of
> backward compatibility?)
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Best,
> Gábor
>
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