>>>>> "Johannes" == Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >> Tue, 4 Mar 2008, David Bremner wrote: >> >> Yeah, I should have been more explicit. The problem is a line >> >> read -N1 VAR Johannes> Can you be even more explicit? IOW why does this have Johannes> to be a pre-commit hook, and cannot be done before Johannes> calling git-commit itself? I have this feeling I don't really understand the question. Yes, in principle, whatever I am doing in a pre-commit hook could be done by hand first. I guess it is primarily a user interface issue. The goal is modify the behaviour of git-commit in a particular repository; isn't this the purpose of pre-commit hooks? All the best, David -- 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