ID

1320870

date

2024-01-26 16:06:06+00:00

author

Alex Chan <alex@alexwlchan.net>

parent

7e8c385

message

Read the front matter to get the title for TILs

changed files

1 file, 2 additions, 7 deletions

• textexpander/create_til_commit_message

Changed files

textexpander/create_til_commit_message (568) → textexpander/create_til_commit_message (441)

diff --git a/textexpander/create_til_commit_message b/textexpander/create_til_commit_message
index 531489c..fdeac19 100755
--- a/textexpander/create_til_commit_message
+++ b/textexpander/create_til_commit_message
@@ -5,14 +5,9 @@ set -o errexit
 set -o nounset
 
 pushd ~/repos/til >/dev/null
-    markdown_file=$(git diff --cached --name-only | grep -v README.md | head -n 1)
-    title=$(basename "$markdown_file")
+    markdown_file=$(git diff --cached --name-only | head -n 1)
 
-    # Strip trailing double quotes from the end
-    title="${title%\"}"
-
-    # Strip the .md file extension
-    title="${title%.md}"
+    title=$(grep 'title:' "$markdown_file" | sed 's/^title: //')
 
     # Use printf rather than echo so it prints Unicode escapes,
     # e.g. "that\342\200\231s" ~> "that’s"