From: Juergen Ruehle Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:38:46 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] simplify the "no changes added to commit" message Message-ID: <17834.20102.334000.595383@lapjr.intranet.kiel.bmiag.de> In-Reply-To: Nicolas Pitre writes: > Suggesting the use of [-a|-i|-o] with git-commit is unnecessarily > complex and confusing. In this context -o is totally useless and -i > requires extra arguments which are not mentioned. The only sensible > hint (besides reading the man page but let's not go there) is > "commit -a". Well, I would say neither -i or -o were totally useless, though identical in this case (clean index). But I agree it's better to only mention -a.