On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 14:04 -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:29:49PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: > > > Is there a way to test for the "Initial commit" message in the > > commit > > template? > > You can do "git commit --dry-run", which produces the template on > stdout. Thanks for the help :) > > That should be good enough for our purposes here, as it's the same > code > that produces the text that goes into the editor template. If you > really > wanted to test what the editor sees, you could do something like: > > GIT_EDITOR='cat >editor-input' git commit > > but I don't think it's worth the trouble. > That's right. I thinks it's not worth the trouble too.