Re: Configure default merge message

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 01:01:42PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

I'd like to configure git to omit the "of https://bitbucket.org/repository-name" part. How can I do that?

Ævar, is this something we recently made it impossible with 4e168333
(shortlog: remove unused(?) "repo-abbrev" feature, 2021-01-12), or
is there more to it than resurrecting that "feature" to do what Jost
seems to want?

IIRC, in that earlier discussion Linus said he used a prepare-commit-msg
hook these days instead of repo-abbrev. And it should be able to handle
this case, as well.

Something like this seems to work for me:

  $ cat .git/hooks/prepare-commit-msg
  #!/bin/sh
  case "$2" in
  merge)
  	perl -i -pe '
  	  s{Merge (.*) of https://github.com/gitster/git}{Merge $1}
  	' "$1"
  	;;
  esac

  $ git pull https://github.com/gitster/git next
  [...]
  $ git log -1 --format=%s
  Merge branch 'next'

-Peff