Re: commit-msg hook

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 18:13:31 +0300
> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > (We only need _some_ Emacs, not the latest one.)
> 
> The one that would be in PATH is the master build, but if it breaks, I'd 
> still like to be able to commit... I think.

How is this different from a broken Gawk?

> Overall, I think porting the whole commit-msg script from awk (scary!) 
> to Elisp would be nice, but it will create this new complication.

I'm not sure the complication is new.  I think we can rely on Emacs
being available no less than we rely on Gawk and Perl nowadays.

> At the very least, it will involve a new configuration step, to somehow 
> tell Git which Emacs build to use.

I think we could just rely on its being on PATH.  All we need is Emacs
23.1 or later.