From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:11:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add option to git-commit to allow empty log messages
Message-ID: <20100405181152.GA32188@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <20100405175822.GA32083@progeny.tock>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> 	parent=HEAD && : or whatever &&
> 	tree=$(git write-tree) &&
> 	printf "%s\n" message |
> 	commit=$(git commit-tree "$tree" -p "$parent") &&
> 	git update-ref refs/heads/somebranch "$commit"

I rearranged this example the last minute and broke it.  You might
say this proves the opposite of my point, though I don’t think that
would be warranted.  Anyway, to feed the message into ‘git
commit-tree’ standard input, the relevant part of the example should
have read as follows:

commit=$(
	printf "%s\n" message |
	git commit-tree "$tree" -p "$parent"
)

Incidentally, outside of the user manual and contrib/examples/ in the
sources, the git documentation does not have many examples like this
to point to, which is too bad.

Sorry for the confusion,
Jonathan