From: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:28:06 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: maint: prevent trailing period at first line of a commit message
X-Git-Tag: v8.22~195
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c53c5e2395d206a1ab2c821eed8414270fbc07b4;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

maint: prevent trailing period at first line of a commit message

* scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg (bad_first_line): Return an error
message if the first line of a commit message ends with a period.
---

diff --git a/scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg b/scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg
index 1732103804..3e91e8ea41 100755
--- a/scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg
+++ b/scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ sub bad_first_line($)
   $line =~ /:/
     or return 'missing colon on first line of log message';
 
+  $line =~ /\.$/
+    and return 'do not use a period "." at the end of the first line';
+
   # The token(s) before the colon on the first line must be on our list
   # Tokens may be space- or comma-separated.
   (my $pre_colon = $line) =~ s/:.*//;