[Enhancement] suppress prepare-commit-msg temporarily / permanent

[LW-archlinux]

I do like the prepare-commit-msg hook, but feel it's overkill for packages that change package versions frequently like VCS packages.

An option to suppress the hook temporarily or permanently for specific packages would help .

Possible invocations :
aurpublish -rm_auto_commit_hook PACKAGE
aurpublish -suppress_auto_commit_hook_once PACKAGE

[eli-schwartz]

I don't often update VCS packages -- only when there are upstream changes to the build system.

Incidentally, what do you see as overkill about it? Note that it's used at git commit time, so I'm not sure what it would look like to disable with options to aurpublish anyway.

[LW-archlinux]

I often add patches to solve something and remove them after they've been accepted to master. Also llvm trunk changes build options rather often .

The overkill happens mainly because I try to keep commits small to make it easier to test changes.
An example are the last 5 changes at https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=llvm-git . They happened within a few hours and I only pushed them after the last commit.

A hook that is triggered by git push instead of git commit could solve that, is such a hook possible ?

[eli-schwartz]

A hook that is triggered by git push instead of git commit could solve that, is such a hook possible ?

No, the hook prepares a commit message and must therefore be run at the time you create the commit... on push can't affect that.

One possibility might be to have a config file in the repository which the hook would read, and use to disable its commit-msg suggestion for certain packages (or alternatively, to provide a different one).

[eli-schwartz]

Is this something you're interested in investigating and possibly providing a patch to implement it?