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Enhancing Your Daily Work with Git Hooks, Aliases, and Scripts

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Using a branch description in a commit message
Creating a dynamic commit message template
Using external information in a commit message
Preventing the push of specific commits
Configuring and using Git aliases
Configuring and using Git scripts
Setting up and using a commit template

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