Whenever I do a git revert I go into an edit session with the following pre-filled.
Revert "wip: does this work?"
This reverts commit ad21a2ae23166b3f3cddoooooooom94821e3cdb4.
# Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
# with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit.
...
...and so on.
I like to use conventional commits, so I change this to revert: "wip: does this work?".
Is there a way to get the initial template for the revert commit message to appear this way by default? Lowercase, and with a colon.
UPDATE This is what I came up with
#!/bin/bash
COMMIT_MSG_FILE=$1
old_subject_line=$(head -1 $COMMIT_MSG_FILE)
# Not a revert
if [[ ! "$old_subject_line" =~ ^Revert\ \" ]]
then
exit 0
fi
new_subject_line=$(echo $old_subject_line|sed 's/^Revert/revert:/')
sed -i "1s/.*/$new_subject_line/" $COMMIT_MSG_FILE
Curiously, the case where two "Reverts" in a row become a "Reapply" doesn't come up like I thought it would. Maybe it only happens if you use the default Revert "yada yada yada" subject line.
Thanks that is a great start, and even better gives me an excuse to faff about with scripting. I'll share what I come up with!
EDIT Oh interesting, in my debugging I found out that if you revert a revert now (git version 2.43.0) that the subject line reads "Reapply" instead of "Revert "Revert "..."""