Re: [PATCH 2/2] commit: make it work with status.short

Junio C Hamano wrote:

As I said in the other message, I'll revert the merge of the topic
branch from 'master' for now, and queue this on top of the topic so
that we will have the preventive fix when the topic is in a better
shape for the other possible breakage on the "--branch" thing.

Thanks, a quick revert is probably the best way to go.

That is, "git commit --short/--porcelain/-z" has these three
possibilities:

 - work (ignoring these options);

 - work (showing the template in some kind of "short" format); or

 - error out (clearly indicating that we did *not* make a commit).

Actually, I had a different idea: to make short (and porcelain, by
extension) set s->commitable correctly.  From a quick analysis, it
shouldn't be a hard problem.  Then, we can make

  $ git commit

display short-form status when there is nothing to commit.