git commit message and global template

[Kevin Funk]

On Friday, December 04, 2015 02:34:21 PM René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Thursday December 03 2015 12:25:23 Kevin Funk wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >I don't see any trace of pulling in a Git commit message template, but I do
> >something that remembers old commit messages (see
> >VCSCommitDiffPatchSource::addMessageToHistory).
> 
> yes, that one is helpful too, but in a different way.
> 
> >Patches welcome I'd say -- would be helpful to honor the Git commit message
> >template (`git config commit.template`) here, and use it in the commit
> >message editor.
> 
> Thought so too.
> .gitconfig is in INI format or something that's hopefully close enough that
> one can use KConfig to check if there's a template key in the commit group;
> if so the feature should be as easy to implement as it is to fetch the
> contents of the file...

Better use the git executable.

Reasoning:
If you overwrite the template in $myproject/.git/config, `git config` returns 
that and otherwise defaults to ~/.gitconfig (global).

I even think we have a thin C++ API for `git config` stuff.

Cheers,
Kevin

> R.

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Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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