Cache commit message in case commit is aborted

[stevejalim]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When using pre-commit hooks, it's possible that a well-intentioned commit will be rejected by those hooks. If one has just written a long commit message (using the external editor or just the smaller in-GUI dialog) and the commit is aborted, the commit note is lost.

Describe the solution you'd like It would be great if the commit message was cached/stashed somewhere to avoid rework in the case of commit failure.

Additional context I'm personally using the pre-commit framework, but I think this stands for anyone using pre-commit hooks

[extrawurst]

Can you link me that pre commit framework you were referring to? I am asking cause I recently looked into husky for #1019

[stevejalim]

Sure thing - it's https://pre-commit.com/ - and gitui does run the hooks, happily 😄

There's also Therapist which does a similar job

[extrawurst]

Also see #937

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[extrawurst]

I am not sure what the problem is. If I create a pre-commit hook that always rejects it does not clear the commit message?

[extrawurst]

this was actually implemented in 6249491 and released in 0.20