On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:49:06AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > another git-rerere observation: occasionally it happens that i > accidentally commit a merge marker into the source code. > > That's obviously stupid, and it normally gets found by testing quickly, > but still it would be a really useful avoid-shoot-self-in-foot feature > if git-commit could warn about such stupidities of mine. > > ( and if i could configure git-commit to outright reject a commit like > that - i never want to commit lines with <<<<<< or >>>>> markers) The right place for this is in a pre-commit hook, which can look at what you are about to commit and decide if it is OK. In fact, the default pre-commit hook that ships with git performs this exact check. You just need to turn it on with: chmod +x .git/hooks/pre-commit -Peff -- 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