How to specify a git commit message template for a repository in a file at a relative path to the repository?

Question

Is there a way to specify a git commit.template that is relative to a repository?

For configuration an example is

$ git config commit.template $HOME/         


        

Answer 1

You can always specify a template at commit-time with -t or --template=.

See: http://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit

Another option might be to use a prepare-commit-msg hook: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3525532/289099