JGit on Windows cannot use hooks that are exe files

[davidmichaelkarr]

Description

I need JGit to support git hooks on Windows that are exe files. Apparently hooks on Windows can only work in contrived situations, supposedly because the name of the file has to be exactly "commit-msg", but the name of the file will be "commit-msg.exe".

Motivation

I implemented a local git commit hook to validate commit messages, to ensure they cite a valid JIRA ticket. We are moving all of our git storage from BitBucket to Github. BitBucket has a server-side "pre-receive" hook for pushes that can be used to do this validation, but nothing like that exists for Github (Github Actions will not suffice). What I implemented works fine with command-line git, but then I discovered that it has no effect in Eclipse, and after filing an EGit ticket (eclipse-egit/egit#74), I realized that this is an issue in JGit, not EGit.

If we can't do client-side validation, we'll have to rely on a poorer choice of validating commits in builds, and if those find violations, will mean harder work for developers.

Alternatives considered

I did try storing an additional file in the hooks directory, called just "commit-msg" (empty file), thinking perhaps that would fool it, but that had no effect.

Additional context

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