Re: [PATCH] git-rm: Fix to properly handle files with spaces, tabs, newlines, etc.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 23, 2006, 01:07 UTC
Message-ID: <7vbqwylw64.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <873biasyew.wl%cworth@cworth.org>

Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:

>  Please ignore the previous patch. This is what I intended to send.

Ahh.  I was wondering...

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>  (For as useful as the index is---and yes, I have found it very
>  useful---I still find it easy to inadvertently commit stale data with
>  it. I guess what might help me is a command to update into the index
>  all files that are currently in the "updated but not checked in (will
>  commit)" state as reported by git status. Does such a command exist?)

No.  I do not do this myself, but this one-liner should work:

	git diff --name-only "$@" | git update-index --stdin

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> PS. What's the syntax/tool support for just replying to an existing
> message, and at the end inserting a patch with its own subject and
> commit message? Here I've manually whacked the subject and put the
> commit message above my reply (in the style of git-format-patch) but
> that seems inelegant.

YMMV depending on the MUA you use, of course.

I start [REPLY], have my MUA quote the original and write response while trimming excess quote, just as usual. When I need to add a patch, then I remove all that with \C-w (kill-region), read a format-patch output into the same mail buffer, and then \C-y (yank) to paste the "usual correspondence" part below the three-dash lines. Yes, it's all manual. I presume it would be easy to write a few-liner Emacs macro to do this though...