From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Fredrik Kuivinen <frekui@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix 'git commit -a' in a newly initialized repository
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:03:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vlkipbh4p.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.0.82.0702221904210.27932@xanadu.home> (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:06:41 -0500 (EST)")
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> However, because ! test -f "$THIS_INDEX" is such a special case
>> (totally new check-in), we can afford to be verbose if we wanted
>> to, and offer tons of possibilities, say:
>>
>> die 'nothing to commit. You can use "git add file..."
>> to include individual files, or use "git add ." if you want to
>> include all files in the current directory, for your first
>> commit.'
>>
>> But if we want to say "for your first commit" in the message, we
>> should also be checking if HEAD commit really does not exist.
>
> Seems to me that the single line message avoids all those issues.
Yup. Will apply Fredrik's original to 'maint'.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-23 5:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-22 20:28 [PATCH] Fix 'git commit -a' in a newly initialized repository Fredrik Kuivinen
2007-02-22 20:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-22 20:54 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-22 20:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-22 21:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-22 21:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-22 21:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-23 0:06 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-23 5:03 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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