Git Hooks

Git Hook to insert branch name to commit message.

Usage

When you commit to Git, hook automatically replaces "[branch]" with name of current branch.

Suppose you are working on branch "555-fix":

[branch] Fixed a typo

You commit this, and see in Git log:

555-fix Fixed a typo

To use this hook, you need

Windows (not tested on Linux)
NodeJS
Git

Clone this repo.

Instal Node.js dependecies with

npm install

Copy hook to target project directory.

copy C:\path-to-git-hook\commit-msg.sample C:\path-to-target-project\.git\hooks\commit-msg

Edit file commit-msg -- change path to git-hook folder.

Make this file executable

attrib +x commit-msg

Copy commit-template.sample file to commit-template.

Edit commit-template as you like.

Plug in the template:

Change directory to target project folder.

Run

git config commit.template C:\path-to-git-hook\commit-template

You will get this template when create new commit with SmartGit.