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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix amending of a commit with an empty message
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:32:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080221213204.GC20143@steel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vmyput4dn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano, Thu, Feb 21, 2008 21:56:52 +0100:
> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > In this one. I am a bit unsure regarding the change (it looks a little
> > too strong), even though it passes the test suite.
> 
> I think that is because your new test is faulty.
> 
> Instead of ':' I complained about, try having "echo foo" there.
> I think it will still fail.

Oh, indeed. The commit to amend does not introduce any changes.

> Having said that, here is a quiz.  When the user says "git
> commit --amend", what are the valid reasons not to allow it,
> other than:
> 
>  - the index is unmerged.
>  - the branch is yet to be born.

There are no tree changes in the commit to be amended.
And if there is a strong wish to do just the amendment,
there is always --allow-empty.

Ok, it must have been the amount of err... tee I just had.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-21 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-21 19:54 [PATCH] A test for commit --amend allowing changing of a very empty commit message Alex Riesen
2008-02-21 20:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-21 20:35   ` Alex Riesen
2008-02-21 20:38     ` [PATCH] Fix amending of a commit with an empty message Alex Riesen
2008-02-21 20:56       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-21 21:32         ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2008-02-21 22:01           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-21 20:57     ` [PATCH] A test for commit --amend allowing changing of a very empty commit message Johannes Schindelin

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