Re: [PATCH] Stash away the original head in ORIG_HEAD when resetting.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Aug 9, 2005, 02:48 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7jevzuz6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508081111020.26210@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> Since there are not many users of git-commit's *-m* flag right now: Is it 
> necessary to confuse CVS people, who expect to be able to write
>
> 	git commit -m "I did this and that"
>
> I do not want to be too intrusive, but I think up to now there is just the 
> mailbox tools which use this feature, and users of git-reset. Thoughts?

I could be talked into renaming the option to something else and using -m in a way that is CVS compatible.

That flag originally came from JIT, which uses:

  -M <commit>	literally take the commit message, no editing necessary;
  -m <commit>	start with commit message in this one but have user edit;

  -l <file>	use the log message in this file;
  -l -		read the log message from stdin.