Encourage https: in commit messages

* CONTRIBUTE: Prefer https: when citing.
* build-aux/git-hooks/commit-msg:
Diagnose http: and ftp: URLs to FSF or GNU hosts.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/build-aux/git-hooks/commit-msg b/build-aux/git-hooks/commit-msg
index 39450865cb8..e21aaf074c6 100755
--- a/build-aux/git-hooks/commit-msg
+++ b/build-aux/git-hooks/commit-msg
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ exec $awk -v at_sign="$at_sign" -v cent_sign="$cent_sign" '
         non_print = "[^[:print:]]"
       }
     }
+    c_lower = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
+    unsafe_gnu_url = "(http|ftp)://([" c_lower ".]*\\.)?(gnu|fsf)\\.org"
   }
 
   /^#/ {
@@ -125,6 +127,14 @@ exec $awk -v at_sign="$at_sign" -v cent_sign="$cent_sign" '
     status = 1
   }
 
+  {
+    if (match($0, unsafe_gnu_url)) {
+      url = substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH)
+      printf "Use https: URL instead of '\''%s'\'' in commit message\n", url
+      status = 1
+    }
+  }
+
   $0 ~ non_print {
     print "Unprintable character in commit message"
     status = 1