Re: [PATCH] Check for -amend as a common wrong usage of --amend.

[Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 07:52:26PM +0100, Pascal Obry wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin a écrit :
> >That is ugly.  In a source file which is by no means specific to 
> >git-commit, you cannot possibly mean to check for "amend".
> 
> Agreed :( I'll try to come with something better.
> 
> Pascal.
> 

Would this be better handled by a commit-msg hook.  E.g.:

test "$(cat $1)" = "end" && {
    echo >&2 Commit message is \"end\", possible mis-type of --amend
    echo >&2 Use --no-verify to really commit with this commit message
	exit 1
}