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Modify commit message from Eclipse plugin [message #1763583]

Wed, 17 May 2017 15:46

Mikey Hansen

Messages: 1
Registered: May 2017

Junior Member

Hi,

I'm working on an Eclipse RCP plugin that is supposed to modify (according to some settings) the commit message in the Git Staging View and Commit Dialog. I can see that this feature is available in the EGit Mylyn plugin where the message is preset to match the currently selected task. I cloned the GitHub Mylyn Connector from https://github.com/eclipse/egit-github and I'm trying to figure out how this is achieved. Can you point me to some relevant code samples or give me any helpful hints?

Thanks

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Re: Modify commit message from Eclipse plugin [message #1763771 is a reply to message #1763583]

Fri, 19 May 2017 13:03

Thomas Wolf

Messages: 181
Registered: August 2016

Senior Member

Modifying an existing commit message is not supported.

You can provide an initial commit message with a ICommitMessageProvider registered through the org.eclipse.egit.ui.commitMessageProvider extension point.

For instance:

package org.example.myapp;

import org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource;
import org.eclipse.egit.ui.ICommitMessageProvider;

public class DummyCommitMessageProvider implements ICommitMessageProvider {

	@Override
	public String getMessage(IResource[] resources) {
		return "This is a dummy message\n";
	}

}

and in your bundle's plugin.xml:

 <extension
         id="org.example.myapp.commitMessage"
         point="org.eclipse.egit.ui.commitMessageProvider">
    <commitMessageProvider
            class="org.example.myapp.DummyCommitMessageProvider">
    </commitMessageProvider>
 </extension>

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