Re: [PATCH 1/2] Suggest use of "git add file1 file2" when there is nothing to commit.

From: Juergen Ruehle <j.ruehle@bmiag.de>
Date: Jan 9, 2007, 05:42 UTC
Message-ID: <17827.11087.870000.177936@lapjr.intranet.kiel.bmiag.de>
In-Reply-To: <1168283894.6134.8.camel@ibook.zvpunry.de>

Michael Loeffler writes:
 > hi,
 > 
 > Am Samstag, den 06.01.2007, 15:02 +0100 schrieb Juergen Ruehle:
 > ...
 > > I'd appreciate feedback on my series from the 2nd of January,
 > > especially part 3/4 (Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Improve "nothing to commit"
 > > part of status output). This is already part of next.
 > A very positive feedback from me, I like this and it is much better then
 > just removing this "use git add"-message. ;)

How about Junio's case where there are only untracked files in the working directory? I tend to send a patch that either just prints "nothing to commit" (simpler) or provides a different message that just advertises git-add.