Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was

[Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>]

Quoting Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>

> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:07:23 +0200 (CEST)
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> 
>> > Just recently, I had a user request (a very valid one, mind you) where 
>> > the user does not want to provide a commit message, and wants to just 
>> > commit all the current changes.  In that particular case, it is very 
>> > sensible to ask for these things.  It is something utterly simple to 
>> > ask for. Yet, it is utterly hard with Git, especially if I have to 
>> > explain it.
>> 
>> Hey Johannes,
>> 
>> It's actually easy, but maybe hard to find:
>> 
>> 	$ git commit --cleanup=verbatim -m ""
>
> Of course that leaves out the main part.  But it is simple once you 
> know it (I did not): git add -A (we even went out of our way _not_ to name 
> the long option --addremove, but --all -- it does not seem to be an 
> expressive-enough option name to me, but what does my impression 
> matter...)
>
> So I retract my claim that it is utterly hard to do with Git (but not the 
> rest).

Last week, Junio gave this comment to your message.

> I suspect the above is another example of your needing to do 
> a better job explaining yourself here, but from "just commit 
> all the changes without saying message", my knee-jerk 
> reaction is "git commit -a -m 'no message'".

> You would need to justify why -m 'no message' does not fit 
> the bill better than just saying "is very sensible to ask for 
> these things", as I highly suspect that I misunderstood what 
> "these things" are in your five lines to come up with that 
> "solution" that you are now going to explain why that is not 
> what the end user wanted.  And in this case, I do not think 
> it is that me being disconnected from the real world, but 
> that your explanation is insufficient.

I'm also curious about the situation when a commit with no message 
is useful, but unfortunately I don't think I saw you explained 
clearly enough what this user request wanted to achieve or what 
"these things" in your message were for us to understand why it is 
a sensible and valid thing to ask. Did I miss some messages in the 
thread?

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Nanako Shiraishi
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