Re: [PATCH] Fix 'git commit -a' in a newly initialized repository

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

However, because ! test -f "$THIS_INDEX" is such a special case
(totally new check-in), we can afford to be verbose if we wanted
to, and offer tons of possibilities, say:

	die 'nothing to commit.  You can use "git add file..."
to include individual files, or use "git add ." if you want to 
include all files in the current directory, for your first
commit.'

But if we want to say "for your first commit" in the message, we
should also be checking if HEAD commit really does not exist.

Seems to me that the single line message avoids all those issues.

Yup.  Will apply Fredrik's original to 'maint'.