commit message validation, or template commit form?

[Steve Borho]

On Tuesday 19 December 2006 9:20 am, Steve Borho wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 December 2006 03:47, Georg wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I keep forgetting to supply some vital information, e.g. bug id
> > references, in my commit messages.
> >
> > Is there a way to plug in some validation code for the commit
> > message, e.g. some formal check whether a bug id was referenced? 
> > I'm not after a bullet proof solution that validates ticket
> > numbers, checks whether they are assigned to me etc., a simple
> > syntactical check of the message would be sufficient.
> >
> > Acutally it would even help if hg commit (or qct, for that matter
> > ;-) ) could present me with a default "fill in the blanks" kind of
> > form when I commit.

Support for a commit message template is now on the qct tip.

== ~/.hgrc ==
[ui]
commit.template = /home/user/.commitLogTempl.txt

I thought about putting this in a [qct] section, but then decided that 
other commit tools/scripts may want to support this in the future.  
[ui] seemed the most appropriate place for it. 

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