bug#81520: Add pre-receive hook to Savannah to reject LLM-encumbered commits

Dmitry Gutov <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:36:58 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 31/07/2026 18:26, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:08:45 +0300
>> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
>> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email protected]>
>>
>> Hi Eli,
>>
>> On 31/07/2026 14:45, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> My point is that when I have several commits, and then pushing them
>>> all fails because one of them, going back and redoing the one that
>>> caused the fail is a terrible nuisance with Git.  So I want the
>>> rejection happen when I commit, so I could fix it right away.
>>
>> If the pre-push hook only checks for LLM attributions, and does that
>> with decent accuracy, would your scenario above ever happen?
> 
> I don't see why not.  I explained up-thread how it could happen.

I mean... if that does happen, wouldn't you want it to be stopped at the 
"git push" stage?

If you agree, then the question might be whether both pre-push and 
pre-commit checks are needed.

>> I don't imagine you would have commits with Assisted-By header in the
>> local checkout of Emacs, with any regularity.
> 
> I think you forget that I frequently push commits of others, and also
> merge from the release branch to master, and then push.

Hopefully the release branch isn't going to receive problematic 
messages, so merging from it won't create such difficulty.