Re: [PATCH] Add commit.status, --status, and --no-status

["James P. Howard, II" <jh@jameshoward.us>]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 02:13, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:45:27PM -0500, James P. Howard, II wrote:
>>
>>> This commit provides support for commit.status, --status, and
>>> --no-status, which control whether or not the git status information
>>> is included in the commit message template when using an editor to
>>> prepare the commit message.  It does not affect the effects of a
>>> user's commit.template settings.
>>
>> Thanks, this looks very cleanly done. The only complaint I would make is
>> that it should probably include a simple test case.
>
> Yes.  Also I am a _bit_ worried about the name "status", as the longer
> term direction is to make "status" not "a preview of commit", may confuse
> people who do read Release Notes.

Right now, this option does not affect how the commit message is prepared
in git tag.  If the option were extended to cover that case as well, what would
a sensible name for the option be, then?

James

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