From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:03:30 GMT
Subject: Re: is it kosher for pre-commit to change what's staged?
Message-ID: <7vlj4zfrgt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101111204626.GA13937@gnu.kitenet.net>

Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:

> ... 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.