Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was

Quoting Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Sean Estabrooks wrote:

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On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:07:23 +0200 (CEST)
Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

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Just recently, I had a user request (a very valid one, mind you) where 
the user does not want to provide a commit message, and wants to just 
commit all the current changes.  In that particular case, it is very 
sensible to ask for these things.  It is something utterly simple to 
ask for. Yet, it is utterly hard with Git, especially if I have to 
explain it.

Hey Johannes,

It's actually easy, but maybe hard to find:

	$ git commit --cleanup=verbatim -m ""

Of course that leaves out the main part.  But it is simple once you 
know it (I did not): git add -A (we even went out of our way _not_ to name 
the long option --addremove, but --all -- it does not seem to be an 
expressive-enough option name to me, but what does my impression 
matter...)

So I retract my claim that it is utterly hard to do with Git (but not the 
rest).

Last week, Junio gave this comment to your message.

I suspect the above is another example of your needing to do 
a better job explaining yourself here, but from "just commit 
all the changes without saying message", my knee-jerk 
reaction is "git commit -a -m 'no message'".

You would need to justify why -m 'no message' does not fit 
the bill better than just saying "is very sensible to ask for 
these things", as I highly suspect that I misunderstood what 
"these things" are in your five lines to come up with that 
"solution" that you are now going to explain why that is not 
what the end user wanted.  And in this case, I do not think 
it is that me being disconnected from the real world, but 
that your explanation is insufficient.

I'm also curious about the situation when a commit with no message 
is useful, but unfortunately I don't think I saw you explained 
clearly enough what this user request wanted to achieve or what 
"these things" in your message were for us to understand why it is 
a sensible and valid thing to ask. Did I miss some messages in the 
thread?

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Nanako Shiraishi
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