Re: Feature request: Configurable prefixes for git commit --fixup and --squash

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John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 01:47:00PM +0100, Martine Lenders wrote:
>> I'm not sure if this was already requested somewhere (a quick - but
>> admittedly not thorough - search did not reveal anything in that
>> direction), but I really miss an option to configure the prefixes generated
>> by `git commit (--fixup | --squash) <commit>` and picked up by `git rebase
>> -i --autosquash`.
>> 
>> My reasoning is that in our project we use GitHub + Travis to test-build
>> our pull requests, but we don't want to spam the CI server with builds that
>> are just fixups to previous changes (which are uploaded so reviewers can
>> track the changes to the original PR). Now, Travis has the option to not
>> build a commit if there is the string `[ci skip]` in the commit message
>> (sadly also not configurable) so it would be really great for my workflow
>> if I could just add this string to the message generated by `--fixup`.
>
> I am against the feature as you describe it, because it has the
> potential to break `git rebase --autosquash` with shared fixups if two
> people are using a different prefix.
>
> However, it sounds like Travis will recognize "[ci skip]" anywhere in
> the commit message.  Would a feature to allow autogenerated content in
> fixup/squash commit message bodies work?

Or, alternatively: change the script used by Travis-CI to do something
like

case "$(head -n 1 "$1")" in
"fixup! "*|"squash! "*)
	: do nothing
        ;;
*)
	launch_real_tests
esac

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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