Re: [PATCH] git-rm: Fix to properly handle files with spaces, tabs, newlines, etc.

Carl Worth [off-list ref] writes:

 Please ignore the previous patch. This is what I intended to send.

Ahh.  I was wondering...

 (For as useful as the index is---and yes, I have found it very
 useful---I still find it easy to inadvertently commit stale data with
 it. I guess what might help me is a command to update into the index
 all files that are currently in the "updated but not checked in (will
 commit)" state as reported by git status. Does such a command exist?)

No.  I do not do this myself, but this one-liner should work:

	git diff --name-only "$@" | git update-index --stdin

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PS. What's the syntax/tool support for just replying to an existing
message, and at the end inserting a patch with its own subject and
commit message? Here I've manually whacked the subject and put the
commit message above my reply (in the style of git-format-patch) but
that seems inelegant.

YMMV depending on the MUA you use, of course.

I start [REPLY], have my MUA quote the original and write
response while trimming excess quote, just as usual.  When I
need to add a patch, then I remove all that with \C-w
(kill-region), read a format-patch output into the same mail
buffer, and then \C-y (yank) to paste the "usual correspondence"
part below the three-dash lines.  Yes, it's all manual.  I
presume it would be easy to write a few-liner Emacs macro to do
this though...