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This is a commit-msg hook for git that will validate your commit message to conform to the rules outlined in http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html It's a ruby adaptation of the hook outlined in http://addamhardy.com/blog/2013/06/05/good-commit-messages-and-enforcing-them-with-git-hooks/ (Thanks Addam Hardy!)
#!/bin/sh
exec < /dev/tty
./.git/hooks/validate_commit.rb $1
#!/usr/bin/ruby
# Encoding: utf-8
editor = ENV['EDITOR'] != 'none' ? ENV['EDITOR'] : 'vim'
message_file = ARGV[0]
def check_format_rules(line_number, line)
real_line_number = line_number + 1
return "Error #{real_line_number}: First line should be less than 50 characters in length." if line_number == 0 && line.length > 50
return "Error #{real_line_number}: Second line should be empty." if line_number == 1 && line.length > 0
(return "Error #{real_line_number}: No line should be over 72 characters long." if line.length > 72) unless line[0,1] == '#'
false
end
while true
commit_msg = []
errors = []
File.open(message_file, 'r').each_with_index do |line, line_number|
commit_msg.push line
e = check_format_rules line_number, line.strip
errors.push e if e
end
unless errors.empty?
File.open(message_file, 'w') do |file|
file.puts "\n# GIT COMMIT MESSAGE FORMAT ERRORS:"
errors.each { |error| file.puts "# #{error}" }
file.puts "\n"
commit_msg.each { |line| file.puts line }
end
puts 'Invalid git commit message format. Press y to edit and n to cancel the commit. [y/n]'
choice = $stdin.gets.chomp
exit 1 if %w(no n).include?(choice.downcase)
next if `#{editor} #{message_file}`
end
break
end
@ksob
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ksob commented Feb 17, 2014

I can add that these two files need to be placed inside '~/.git_template/hooks' with 'chmod a+x' called on them.

@m1foley
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m1foley commented Aug 26, 2015

Thanks for this script. After using it for a while I was inspired to write Fit Commit, a more polished tool that does essentially the same thing.

@mech
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mech commented Mar 9, 2016

If anyone getting the VIM: Warning: Output is not a terminal, you can change the last line to system(editor, message_file)

@clns
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clns commented Mar 22, 2016

Thanks. I've also used it for a while and then wrote node-commit-msg, a validator that obeys rules from different sources and that uses the Stanford Parser with a custom trained model to detect non present tense verbs.

@tommarshall
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Thanks for this. Used this for over a year. I recently wrote git-good-commit, a similar hook written in pure bash to avoid the ruby dependency. Hopefully that's useful to someone else as well.

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xelnod commented Dec 14, 2016

Is there a way to hook the messages passed from -m commit argument too?

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pgreene commented Apr 28, 2017

I have message validation working locally via commit-msg. Thank you btw for demonstrating via example. However adding the script(s) to .git_template with the proper executable permissions to make it 'global' doesn't seem to work for me. What I really want is to turn this into a server side hook. I've read different documentation and examples of doing this with no success on my end so far. Any working use cases or an example of how to turn this into a server side hook, would help. :)

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