Hello Git Community, TL;DR: It would be a really nice enhancement if the commit command natively supported _optionally_ injecting a "Change-Id: I000..." footer in the last paragraph of the commit message template and then substituting the "I000..." value, on commit, with a generated value _without_ having to rely on a per-repository, native hook or a global hook that affects every local repository.
Full Request: Gerrit has established the change-id footer as a prominent and wide-spread collaboration identifier. For those contributing new patches to a Gerrit server, it is required to either use EGit/JGit (Eclipse) to generate commits [1] OR to use a commit hook script with native git to insert a change-id footer during the commit process [2]. This per-repository hook script requirement is an obstacle. These communities would be better served and it would lower the contribution barrier for many open source projects if native git supported change-id generation & injection. I acknowledge that not everyone uses nor wants to use Gerrit and the change-id footer. That is fine, but it would be a _tremendous_ usability improvement for those contributing to open source projects (myself included) if something like a "--change-id" flag was implemented and maybe even a config setting to always generate a change-id on commit (EGit currently supports this as "gerrit.createchangeid=true"). Sadly, my C skills are lacking as I live mostly in the world of managed code, but I'd be very happy to cheer for a change-id champion; I suspect there are some out there who might rally to this cause. Thanks for your consideration. James Moger gitblit.com [1] https://git.eclipse.org/c/jgit/jgit.git/tree/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/api/CommitCommand.java?h=stable-3.1#n288 [2] http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.0/cmd-hook-commit-msg.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
