Re: Call Me Gitless

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Aug 19, 2008, 20:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20080819203353.GG10544@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0808191523050.19665@iabervon.org>

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 03:42:01PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

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> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Jeff King wrote:
> Ah, okay. I feel like the main application for this is "I typed some git 
> diff command, started looking at it, my phone rang, I took the call, and 
> now I don't know what I'm looking at, and the pager hides the command 
> line, but quitting the pager loses my place." At least, that's the 
> situation I'm often in.

Press ctrl-z. ;-)

> > > Yeah, that's why I think that format-patch should work on content that you 
> > > haven't committed, generating something you can dump right into an email 
> > > (with the --- and diffstat that you'd get if you actually did commit and 
> > > use format-patch now).

Hmm, and why don't you actually do the commit after all? You can compose all the details within the commit and you can do the commit on a separate branch or git reset HEAD^ afterwards if you don't want to keep it around.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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