Re: [PATCH] git-commit: '--no-status' Allow suppression of status summary in commit msg

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Marcus Griep <marcus@griep.us> writes:

> Currently, using any editor to edit a commit message for 'git commit'
> kicks of a 'git status' which is then included as comments to give
> the commit author some context. However, in some situations, such as
> having a working tree of many hundred thousand files or on an inefficient
> filesystem,

I am not interested in this particular patch, especially the part that
hoards a short-and-nice -S flag that we could use for something more
useful.  Also calling the configuration variable "nostatus" is backwards;
I'd name it to "showstatus" that defaults to "true" if I were doing this.

You did not mention exactly how the "hundred thousand files on an
inefficient filesystem" is a problem, but if it is about listing untracked
files, I thought Marius Storm-Olsen added a feature to address that with
4bfee30 (Add an optional <mode> argument to commit/status -u|--untracked-files
option, 2008-06-05).

If that is not still enough for your particular use case, I think you can
have a custom wrapper that does:

	#!/bin/sh
	: >.log-message-file &&
        vi .log-message-file &&
        git commit -F .log-message-file "$@" &&
        rm -f .log-message-file 

without touching git at all.