Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2016-06-15

Re: [PATCH] Stash away the original head in ORIG_HEAD when resetting.

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:03

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:
Since there are not many users of git-commit's *-m* flag right now: Is it 
necessary to confuse CVS people, who expect to be able to write

	git commit -m "I did this and that"

I do not want to be too intrusive, but I think up to now there is just the 
mailbox tools which use this feature, and users of git-reset. Thoughts?
I could be talked into renaming the option to something else and
using -m in a way that is CVS compatible.

That flag originally came from JIT, which uses:

  -M <commit>	literally take the commit message, no editing necessary;
  -m <commit>	start with commit message in this one but have user edit;

  -l <file>	use the log message in this file;
  -l -		read the log message from stdin.
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