ICommitMessageProvider.java

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 * Copyright (C) 2010, Thorsten Kamann <thorsten@kamann.info>
 *
 *
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package org.eclipse.egit.ui;

import org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource;
import org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.dialogs.CommitDialog;

/**
 * This interface must be implemented to be a commit message provider. A commit
 * message provider provides the complete or a fragment of a commit message.
 * This message will be added to the text field in the {@link CommitDialog}. <br/>
 *
 * @see CommitDialog
 */
public interface ICommitMessageProvider {

	/**
	 * @param resources
	 * @return the message the CommitDialog should use as default message or
	 * <code>null</code> if this provider cannot provide a commit message
	 */
	public String getMessage(IResource[] resources);
}