> > The problem is that the push fails witih: > > > > remote: *** The following commit was rejected by your > > hooks.commit-extra-checker script (status: 1) > > remote: *** commit: 03e87724864a17e22c9b692cc0caa014e9dba6b1 > > remote: *** The first line of a commit message should be a short > > description of the change, not a single word. > > remote: error: hook declined to update > > Joel, my understanding was that commit-extra-checker was the right setting > to use for a hook that should check new commits - commits new to the > repository, not commits already in the repository that are being added to > the ancestry of a ref. Is that not the case? All the checks I've > implemented via that hook are only intended to apply to commits that are > new to the repository.
That's correct. The commit-extra-checker is called using the same list of "added commits" as the other checks implemented in the hooks, and that list excludes all commits accessible from existing references in the repository. -- Joel
