From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:15:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-commit: Add --no-status option
Message-ID: <20070906221557.GA20575@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20070905234953.GB643@nomad.office.altlinux.org>

Dmitry V. Levin, Thu, Sep 06, 2007 01:49:53 +0200:
> By default, git-commit runs git-runstatus to print changes between
> the index and the working tree.  This operation is very costly and
> is not always necessary.  New option allows user to commit without
> running git-runstatus when appropriate.

Not a very good name for the option. Noone, except for a few, knows
that git-commit runs runstatus. The name makes no sense.

"git-commit --index", perhaps (the current state of index to be
commited). Or "git-commit --prepared" (the commit is prepared and
there can be stored immediately). Even a dumb "--fast" would be
better (because it is the purpose of the patch).

Besides, now when you disabled runstatus, you better check for changes
in the index with something like "git diff --quiet --cached".