Populate git commit message about snitch HOT 4 CLOSED

@TheKnarf If you're following git-flow (or any kind of modification of it) you probably work on separate issues in separate branches. I usually go to the extent of calling my branches with straight up the number of the issue: git checkout -b 42. So you can easily set up a prepare-commit-msg hook that inserts the current branch name into the template of the commit message. You can find more info in this SO question for example.

So this issue kinda feels like outside of the scope of this project. What do you think?

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Personally, I don't follow git-flow on solo projects.

I'd love if snitch had the option to be configured to call prepare-commit-msg with a given issue number and with the description of the issue as a part of the commit (but maybe in a comment).

The way I imagine it working is something like:

$ snitch workon 12
$ git commit
Work towards #12

# Issue 12:
# Populate git commit message
# 
# Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
# with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit.

That way (in combination with issue #11) I never have to leave the terminal to work on issues. And it should work either you use git-flow or not.

@rexim I'd be happy to build this functionality myself if you'd feel okay with having it / merging the PR.

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@TheKnarf this still sounds outside of the scope of this project. Snitch is a simple tool that collects TODOs in the source code and reports them as GitHub issues. Your idea is great for a separate tool though.

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If you don't want this functionality in snitch then feel free to close this and the related issue #11.

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