How can I enforce a message format locally (where I am forced to include refs #<ticket_no>), which will prevent me from committing.
It would also be nice to have support for circumventing this like git commit -m --ignore-fomrat ""
Setup a git commit message policy answers for remote system
You will need hook for this task.
Hooks can be on the local repository but they can be deleted so you will need to verify it in the remote repository as well.
Sample post-commit hook#!/bin/sh
#Pickup the commit details
while read oldrev newrev refname
do
branch=`echo $refname | cut -d'/' -f3`
old=`echo $oldrev | cut -c1-5`
new=`echo $newrev | cut -c1-5`
done
for rev in `git rev-list $old..$new`;do
message =`git cat-file commit $rev | sed '1,/^$/d'`
echo $message | grep -q ^'refs #'
if [ $? -ne 0 ] ;then
# Output colors
red='\033[0;31m';
green='\033[0;32m';
yellow='\033[0;33m';
default='\033[0;m';
# personal touch :-)
echo "${red}"
echo " "
echo " |ZZzzz "
echo " | "
echo " | "
echo " |ZZzzz /^\ |ZZzzz "
echo " | |~~~| | "
echo " | |- -| / \ "
echo " /^\ |[]+ | |^^^| "
echo " |^^^^^^^| | +[]| | | "
echo " | +[]|/\/\/\/\^/\/\/\/\/|^^^^^^^| "
echo " |+[]+ |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| +[]| "
echo " | | [] /^\ [] |+[]+ | "
echo " | +[]+| [] || || [] | +[]+| "
echo " |[]+ | || || |[]+ | "
echo " |_______|------------------|_______| "
echo " "
echo " "
echo " ${green}Your message is unacceptable :-)${red} "
echo " Fix it if you wish to commit .!!! "
echo " "
echo "${default}"
exit 0
fi
