This is more interesting than just using 'mda' all the time, but it's
harder to setup proper quoting around the message without using
third-party Perl modules (e.g. IPC::Run or String::ShellQuote). This
proof-of-concept patch just assumes the subject doesn't contain
single-quotes ('). This patch also doesn't handle the empty/missing
subject case, which should probably fall back to '<no subject>' or
some such.
I'm fine dropping support for older Gits here, and just using the -m
option to commit-tree. That landed with
96b8d93a (commit-tree: teach
-m/-F options to read logs from elsewhere, 2011-11-09) in Git v1.7.9,
which was released over 2.5 years ago on 2012-01-27.
It would also be useful (I think) to set the GIT_AUTHOR_NAME,
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, and GIT_AUTHOR_DATE environment variables from the
message header before committing. I know how to do that using
Python's subprocess module, but I don't know the Perl incantation.