Check file given as first argument

Check the file whose name has been specified on the command line for
errors, instead of `stdin'. Git passes the file name of the file
containing the commit message instead of passing the commit message to
`stdin'.

This was supposed to be committed in the first commit. but somehow it
got lost.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/commit-check b/commit-check
index 6543633..3cfd7c6 100755
--- a/commit-check
+++ b/commit-check
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ sub err {
     $status = 1;
 }
 
-while (<>) {
+open(my $commitfile, "<", $ARGV[0]) or die "Couldn't open $ARGV[0]";
+
+while (<$commitfile>) {
     next if /^#/;                 # Discard comments
     next if $lineno == 0 && /^$/; # Discard leading empty lines
     $lineno++;                    # Start at 1, so increment first
@@ -27,4 +29,5 @@ while (<>) {
     err "Longer than 80 characters" if /^.{73,}/;
 }
 
+close $commitfile;
 exit $status;