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Re: is it kosher for pre-commit to change what's staged?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 11, 2010, 22:03 UTC
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Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
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> ... The
> pre-commit script there stores some metadata about files that git
> usually doesn't track, by putting it in a dotfile, and stages that
> dotfile for commit. Which currently works fine, except for the minor
> problem that the user doesn't see the dotfile listed in the commit
> message.

I am hearing "list of files in the commit message", and am getting confused. As far as I know we don't store such a list in the commit message.

Puzzled.
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  1. Joey HessNov 10, 2010
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 10, 2010
  3. Jonathan NiederNov 10, 2010
  4. Joey HessNov 10, 2010
  5. Dmitry PotapovNov 10, 2010
  6. Jan HudecNov 11, 2010
  7. Joey HessNov 11, 2010
  8. Junio C HamanoNov 11, 2010
  9. Kevin BallardNov 11, 2010

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