How to set commit message template in Eclipse

Question

Reading this article

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/level-you-up-to-awesome-commit-messages-a85558cb90e8

I wanted to set my commit message template to show few comments to remind me of writing good commit messages.

I see many answers on how to set commit messages if I commit through console, but neither one is shown for commit messages in Eclipse.

I do not need tasks automatically added or nothing specific except few comments like this one:

> # [Add/Fix/Remove/Update/Refactor/Document] [summary]


# Why is it necessary? (Bug fix, feature, improvements?)
-
# How does the change address the issue? 
-
# What side effects does this change have?
-
# Include a link to the ticket, if any.

I tried setting .gitconfig file and Eclipse -> Preference -> Mylyn -> Team with mentioned comments, but commit message is not automatically added.

Tadija Malić · Answer 1 · 2019-08-23T08:32:40.783

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The problem was that there were Mylyn settings in Eclipse -> Preference -> Mylyn -> Team so I assumed everything is installed properly.

After reinstalling Mylyn and installing all of it's connectors, it works fine.

--- EDIT ---

I will leave this answer here if there will be someone with similar problem, but if some of more experienced colleagues consider it not necessary, just leave the comment and I will delete it.

edited Aug 23 '19 at 08:32

answered Mar 29 '19 at 10:25

Tadija Malić

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Same issue here. Which connectors did you install? Seems that eclipse ignores commit.template git config – Mahatma_Fatal_Error Jan 03 '20 at 16:22
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Seems to be a missing feature: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=535844 and https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=446355 – Mahatma_Fatal_Error Jan 03 '20 at 16:35
@Mahatma_Fatal_Error I just checked this and I can confirm it does not work as expected anymore (haven't used Eclipse for a while). – Tadija Malić Jan 05 '20 at 16:04

How to set commit message template in Eclipse

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