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From: "Steve French" <smfrench@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: default commit message for a tree
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:13:21 -0500
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Worked beautifully - thanks

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
>  On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Steve French wrote:
>  >
>  > I created a file .git/commit-template with default text as follows:
>  >
>  > [CIFS]
>  >
>  > Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
>
>  You need to use
>
>             git-config commit.template .git/commit-template
>
>  (or use the whole absolute pathname to your template file). The pathname
>  is relative to the working tree, not GIT_DIR.
>
>                 Linus
>



-- 
Thanks,

Steve