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From: "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Git and Scmbug integration
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:16:47 +1100
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On Nov 14, 2007 12:11 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Sure -- I've got a patch for it that I'll send shortly. It's using the
> > existing shell git-commit, so might be suitable for maint; I haven't
> > followed what's happened with the builtinification of git-commit.
>
> No, 'maint' won't get a feature enhancements.

Fair enough.

> Again, why isn't reading HEAD enough?

Reading HEAD would be fine. I guess it just seems a sensible and more
direct path to passing that information so that the hook has less to
do. It seems quite a simple thing that would be very helpful to hook
writers, with zero impact on everyone else.


Dave.