Re: New Git hooks for checking file names in commit messages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 10:44:10 -0700
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org
> 
> On 4/21/2023 9:44 AM, Jim Porter wrote:
> > I tried to be as lenient as possible with the Git hooks so that they 
> > only catch things that would be a problem for admin/authors.el, though
> > there are some small differences regarding multi-line lists of files.
> 
> After thinking about this for a bit, I came up with a way to match 
> admin/authors.el in the hooks (at least, to the best of my knowledge). 
> This should mean that the hooks will report exactly the same errors as 
> admin/authors.el.
> 
> With this patch, there's no restriction on putting a "*" in the first 
> column of a commit message, so long as that paragraph doesn't also have 
> a ":" in it (just like admin/authors.el).
> 
> Eli, what do you think? I've run this against the 5000 latest commits 
> and the results look right (though I haven't looked as thoroughly as 
> last time).

I think the hooks should follow the GNU Standards (which are also our
conventions), not their particular expressions in algorithms used by
authors.el.