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From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	javierdo1@gmail.com, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	judge.packham@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] commit: disable status hints when writing to COMMIT_EDITMSG
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 05:13:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cRfgSrSMHT0OX0H=uh-Wi3TceU+UN8gUH4La1RTpRLETQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378890539-1966-2-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
> Most status hints were written to be accurate when running "git status"
> before running a commit. Many of them are not applicable when the commit
> has already been started, and should not be shown in COMMIT_EDITMSG. The
> most obvious are hints advising to run "git commit",
> "git rebase/am/cherry-pick --continue", which do not make sense when the
> command has already been ran.

s/ran/run/

> Other messages become slightly inaccurate (e.g. hint to use "git add" to
> add untracked files), as the suggested commands are not immediately
> applicable during the edition of COMMIT_EDITMSG, but would be applicable

s/edition/editing/

> if the commit is aborted. These messages are both potentially helpful and
> slightly misleading. This patch chose to remove them too, to avoid
> introducing too much complexity in the status code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-11  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-11  9:08 [PATCH 1/2] wt-status: turn advice_status_hints into a field of wt_status Matthieu Moy
2013-09-11  9:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] commit: disable status hints when writing to COMMIT_EDITMSG Matthieu Moy
2013-09-11  9:13   ` Eric Sunshine [this message]
2013-09-11 18:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] wt-status: turn advice_status_hints into a field of wt_status Jeff King
2013-09-12  9:44   ` Matthieu Moy
2013-09-12  9:52     ` Jeff King

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