How do you commit when you use git? Most developers like starting with small-case like this.
$ git commit -m "blah blah blah" #=> "Blah blah blah"
Because we are lazy to change "Add", "Remove", "Change"... But when you merge another branch, git will add commit message which starts upper-case "Merge ..."
So I decided to wrote a simple scripts. https://gist.github.com/4472134
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
msg = File.read(ARGV[0]) # ARGV[0] == .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG
File.open(ARGV[0], 'w') do |f|
f.write(msg.capitalize)
end
This script helps us change capitalisation when you commit things. Usage is simple. Put code into your every .git directory. (I recommend you to change code with C, Java... You can get bit faster to run the command)
Note: It might ignore ...CSS... to ...css... by capitalise method. I wanted to keep script is simple. Please edit what you want.
$ vim commit-msg # edit above
$ chmod a+x commit-msg # executable command
$ mv commit-msg .git/hooks
It's done, but wait. How do we change already committed messages? You can use filter-branch. If you need more instructions, go check out Git Book.
$ cd [your git repo]
$ git filter-branch -f --msg-filter 'ruby -e "puts ARGF.read.capitalize"' -- --all
Okay, did you see every commit capitalised? That's it! But don't forget you should not do this on already pushed to shared server. Hope this helps ;)
[]($ git filter-branch -f --msg-filter 'sed "s/^./\u&/g"' -- --all)