Re: [PATCH] init-db: support --import to add all files and commit right after init

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 25, 2009, 04:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20090325041934.GA15524@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1237946996-5287-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:09:56PM +1100, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

> This is equivalent to "git init;git add .;git commit -q -m blah".
> I find myself doing that too many times, hence this shortcut.

I think I would find this handy. Shawn suggested an alias, but I think this is perhaps "universal enough" to merit an actual command-line option.

> +-m <message>::
> +--import=<message>::
> +
> +Commit everything to the newly initialized repository. This is equivalent to:

Maybe this is being too lazy, but I think it would be useful to allow just "--import" without a message to default to "Initial commit", "initial import from `basename $PWD`", or something like that.

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> +		else if (!strcmp(arg, "--import") || !strcmp(arg, "-m")) {
> +			if (i+1 >= argc)
> +				die("--import requires an import message");
> +			import_message = argv[2];
> +			i++;
> +			argv++;
> +		}

I seem to recall that we were phasing out "--long-option <arg>" at some point, and that all long-options should use "--long-option=". But maybe I am mis-remembering.

-Peff