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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Federico Fissore <federico@fissore.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug] .git/hooks/commit-msg.sample test is reversed
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 11:10:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpq8u88cajg.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55F7DA48.30104@fissore.org> (Federico Fissore's message of "Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:43:52 +0200")

Federico Fissore <federico@fissore.org> writes:

> Hello everyone
>
> In file commit-msg.sample, grep test is reversed. It greps
> '^Signed-off-by: '
> while it should grep
> 'Signed-off-by: '
>
> If you run the sample against attached file, it won't complain. Remove
> the ^ and it will work as expected

I think the test is correct.

In grep, ^ can have two meanings:

'^foo' means "foo at the start of a line"
'[^abc]' means "one character but not a, b or c"

The Signed-off-by: trailer is meant to be at the start of a line, hence
the ^.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

      reply	other threads:[~2015-09-15  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-15  8:43 [bug] .git/hooks/commit-msg.sample test is reversed Federico Fissore
2015-09-15  9:10 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]

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