[Feature Request] Can use 'prepare-commit-msg' hook --no-edit

[FatehAK]

💭 Describe the feature

We are using czg as part of husky's 'prepare-commit-msg' hook like so -

exec < /dev/tty && npx --no-install czg --hook || true

It works as expected but it open the vim editor unnecessarily at the end.

Is it possible to add a flag --no-edit so that the editor is not opened at the end?

💡 Proposed Solution

Add a preventEditorOpen flag which can be false by default and we can set it to true from .commitlintrc.js

If the preventEditorOpen flag is true then the git commit command will be git commit --no-edit

[Zhengqbbb]

I will try git commit --no-edit

[FatehAK]

We can, it's just we work in a team setting and making every dev do that is cumbersome. So thought of having a config preventEditorOpen in .commitlintrc.js would make it much easier. Your thoughts?

[Zhengqbbb]

We can, it's just we work in a team setting and making every dev do that is cumbersome. So thought of having a config preventEditorOpen in .commitlintrc.js would make it much easier. Your thoughts?

It will be nice. I will consider adding it if it can work. Of course I also need to consider the version number of git

[FatehAK]

Great! This feature would be extremely helpful in our situation. Thanks in advance.

[Zhengqbbb]

I'm very sorry to tell you, I tried many ways, but it didn't work.

1. https://git-scm.com/docs/githooks#_pre_merge_commit This hook is invoked by git-commit[1] right after preparing the default log message, and before the editor is started.
   I did not call the command to push the message, just the way to write the .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG file

2. Can you close the editor directly (core.editor = false), No

[FatehAK]

Ah interesting, I see. Thanks for trying.

I think I'll set up an alias or npm script for this.

[Zhengqbbb]

Yep

In the future if I find out the solution I will reopen the ISSUE

[FatehAK]

Will do the same thanks!

[Zhengqbbb]

work~
TIP: This hook has a characteristic of merging messages.
VIM can be circumvented, and I will write an article later on why use git commit -m ''

add .bashrc or .zshrc

git() {
  local _cmd="$*"
  if [ "$1" = "commit" ] && [ "${_cmd%%"--help"}" = "$_cmd"  ]; then
    shift 1; command git commit -m ''
  else
    command git "$@"
  fi
}

[Zhengqbbb]

Finally !!! We find out a way to resolve open editor !!! 🤩 @FatehAK

1. Change you project core editor from default vi to cat~

git config core.editor cat
git commit # try it !

2. Can add project scripts (like pnpm's postinstall) to help other project collaborator

// package.json
"scripts": {
  "postinstall": "git config core.editor cat",
}

[ItsTarik]

@Zhengqbbb this works as expected 👍