automatically prepend ticket number to commit message

automatically prepend ticket number to commit message

* mv .git/hooks/commit-msg.sample .git/hooks/commit-msg
* chmod ug+x .git/hooks/commit-msg

paste the desired script into commit-msg

commit-msg-option-3

#!/bin/sh

#  branch structure of `something/####-something`

ticket=$(git symbolic-ref HEAD | awk -F"[/-]" '{print $4}')
if [ -n "$ticket" ]; then
	echo $ticket":" "$(cat $1)" > $1
fi

commit-msg-option-one

#!/bin/sh

#  branch structure of `SOMETHING-####-SOMETHING`

ticket=$(git symbolic-ref HEAD | awk -F"[--]" '{print $2}')
if [ -n "$ticket" ]; then
	echo $ticket":" "$(cat $1)" > $1
fi

commit-msg-option-two

#!/bin/sh

# branch structure of `something/something/SOMETHING`

ticket=$(git symbolic-ref HEAD | awk -F "/" '{print $NF}')
if [ -n "$ticket" ]; then
        echo $ticket":" "$(cat $1)" > $1
fi