Re: commit-msg hook possible bad behavior with -F <file>

[Seth Raymond <seth.c.raymond@gmail.com>]

I see that line of thinking, and agree that it makes sense. I'm having
problems with an IDE (Qt Creator) and I think I know where the problem
lies now. I believe Qt Creator doesn't actually call git commit until
after the user generates a message in the message box, meaning my
prepare-commit-msg hook is run after I've already written a message
out to <file>.

I don't think there's a fix to it due to the IDE's seemingly-poor
implementation of the git plugin. Thanks for the clarification!

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Seth Raymond <seth.c.raymond@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If a commit is invoked with -F <file>, indicating that the commit
>> message should be read from an existing file, the the
>> prepare-commit-msg and commit-msg hooks do not operate on <file>. The
>> first argument to the hook is always <git_repo>/COMMIT_EDITMSG, rather
>> than <file>.
>>
>> Am I wrong in this line of thinking?
>
> The content of <file> gets copied into COMMIT_EDITMSG, so the hook
> does see the supplied message, as expected. Given that the hook is
> allowed to edit the message, it makes sense that it works on
> COMMIT_EDITMSG rather than on <file> directly.