Merge branch 'ks/prepare-commit-msg-sample'

Remove an example that is now obsolete from a sample hook,
and improve an old example in it that added a sign-off manually
to use the interpret-trailers command.

* ks/prepare-commit-msg-sample:
  hook: add a simple first example
  hook: add sign-off using "interpret-trailers"
  hook: name the positional variables
  hook: cleanup script

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt
index b2514f4d44..623ed1a138 100644
--- a/Documentation/githooks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt
@@ -121,8 +121,8 @@ it is not suppressed by the `--no-verify` option.  A non-zero exit
 means a failure of the hook and aborts the commit.  It should not
 be used as replacement for pre-commit hook.
 
-The sample `prepare-commit-msg` hook that comes with Git comments
-out the `Conflicts:` part of a merge's commit message.
+The sample `prepare-commit-msg` hook that comes with Git removes the
+help message found in the commented portion of the commit template.
 
 commit-msg
 ~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample b/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample
index 86b8f227ec..dc707e46eb 100755
--- a/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample
+++ b/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 #
 # To enable this hook, rename this file to "prepare-commit-msg".
 
-# This hook includes three examples.  The first comments out the
-# "Conflicts:" part of a merge commit.
+# This hook includes three examples. The first one removes the
+# "# Please enter the commit message..." help message.
 #
 # The second includes the output of "git diff --name-status -r"
 # into the message, just before the "git status" output.  It is
@@ -20,17 +20,23 @@
 # The third example adds a Signed-off-by line to the message, that can
 # still be edited.  This is rarely a good idea.
 
-case "$2,$3" in
-  merge,)
-    @PERL_PATH@ -i.bak -ne 's/^/# /, s/^# #/#/ if /^Conflicts/ .. /#/; print' "$1" ;;
+COMMIT_MSG_FILE=$1
+COMMIT_SOURCE=$2
+SHA1=$3
 
-# ,|template,)
-#   @PERL_PATH@ -i.bak -pe '
-#      print "\n" . `git diff --cached --name-status -r`
-#	 if /^#/ && $first++ == 0' "$1" ;;
+@PERL_PATH@ -i.bak -ne 'print unless(m/^. Please enter the commit message/..m/^#$/)' "$COMMIT_MSG_FILE"
 
-  *) ;;
-esac
+# case "$COMMIT_SOURCE,$SHA1" in
+#  ,|template,)
+#    @PERL_PATH@ -i.bak -pe '
+#       print "\n" . `git diff --cached --name-status -r`
+# 	 if /^#/ && $first++ == 0' "$COMMIT_MSG_FILE" ;;
+#  *) ;;
+# esac
 
 # SOB=$(git var GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT | sed -n 's/^\(.*>\).*$/Signed-off-by: \1/p')
-# grep -qs "^$SOB" "$1" || echo "$SOB" >> "$1"
+# git interpret-trailers --in-place --trailer "$SOB" "$COMMIT_MSG_FILE"
+# if test -z "$COMMIT_SOURCE"
+# then
+#   @PERL_PATH@ -i.bak -pe 'print "\n" if !$first_line++' "$COMMIT_MSG_FILE"
+# fi