git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH] Add commit.infodisplay option to give message editor empty file

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 6, 2009, 04:22 UTC
Message-ID
<20091206042206.GC23983@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20091205230903.GA3816@thermopylae.local>
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 06:09:03PM -0500, James P. Howard, II wrote:
Show 12 quoted lines
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:28:27AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > If the latter, I think we would be better served by an option to simply
> > turn off the template. Then that is also helpful for the case of people
> > using decent editors, but who don't want to waste the CPU time on
> > generating the template information (which can be substantial for things
> > like media repositories).
> 
> Actually, I find this a reasonable solution for both cases and would be
> willing to reimplment my change this way, as it meets my needs and would
> be useful to others.  The only question I have is, what should variable/
> command line option be called?

I would be tempted to call it "--no-template", but I think that is too confusing. The "--template" option is not really about the git-generated template, but about a user-defined template that goes on top of the git-generated one (I would have expected --template=/dev/null to do what you want, too, but it retains the git template).

Probably "--no-status" would be a good name, as the generated template is the format generated by "git status".

-Peff
Previous: James P. Howard, IINext: Junio C Hamano
Message 6 of 15 in “Add commit.infodisplay option to give message editor empty file”
  1. Add commit.infodisplay option to give message editor empty fileJames P. Howard, II, Dec 4, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 5, 2009
  3. James P. Howard, IIDec 5, 2009
  4. Jeff KingDec 5, 2009
  5. James P. Howard, IIDec 5, 2009
  6. Jeff KingDec 6, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 6, 2009
  8. Jeff KingDec 6, 2009
  9. Add commit.status, --status, and --no-statusJames P. Howard, II, Dec 7, 2009
  10. James PickensDec 8, 2009
  11. Jeff KingDec 8, 2009
  12. Junio C HamanoDec 8, 2009
  13. Jeff KingDec 8, 2009
  14. James P. Howard, IIDec 8, 2009
  15. James P. Howard, IIDec 7, 2009

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.