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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Advertise the ability to abort a commit
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:58:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vwsj23896.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080731055024.GA17652@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:50:24 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 07:53:11PM +0200, Anders Melchiorsen wrote:
>
>> An empty commit message is now treated as a normal situation, not an error.
>
> As others have commented, I think the right way to say this is probably
> "it is not reported to the user as an error, but still exits with a
> non-zero exit status".
>
> And I think it looks better.
>
> But:
>
>>  			"# Please enter the commit message for your changes.\n"
>> +			"# To abort the commit, use an empty commit message.\n"
>>  			"# (Comment lines starting with '#' will ");
>
> I still prefer a shortened version of these three lines, as I mentioned
> earlier.

I tend to agree; please make it so ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-31  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-29 19:32 [PATCH] Advertise the ability to abort a commit Anders Melchiorsen
2008-07-29 20:12 ` [PATCH v2] " Anders Melchiorsen
2008-07-29 20:51   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-29 21:19     ` Anders Melchiorsen
2008-07-30  5:07   ` Jeff King
2008-07-30  5:11     ` Jeff King
2008-07-30 17:53       ` [PATCH v3] " Anders Melchiorsen
2008-07-30 19:01         ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-07-30 21:09           ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-30 21:16             ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-07-30 21:53             ` Anders Melchiorsen
2008-07-31  5:50         ` Jeff King
2008-07-31  5:58           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-31  6:36             ` [PATCH] " Jeff King
2008-07-31  7:36             ` [PATCH v3] " Jeff King
2008-07-31 10:55               ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-31 11:09                 ` Jeff King
2008-07-31  7:28           ` Anders Melchiorsen
2008-07-31  7:32             ` Jeff King

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