Re: .git/hooks/commit-msg

[Jan D.]

Paul Eggert skrev den 2014-12-08 02:14:
> Jan D. wrote:
> > It keeps complaining about control caracter, even if there are none....
> > Does it assume GNU awk?
>
> No, it assumes only POSIX awk.  However, it turns out that FreeBSD awk
> is buggy here; see FreeBSD bug#195792 <http://bugs.freebsd.org/195792>.

Ah, so thats it.  I can confirm OSX has this bug.

> I worked around the FreeBSD bug by installing the attached patch to the
> emacs-24 branch; this should be merged into the Emacs master in due
> course.  After applying the patch, you can run './autogen.sh' to
> propagate the fix into your .git/hooks/commit-msg.

Thanks.

        Jan D.