From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:03:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix 'git commit -a' in a newly initialized repository
Message-ID: <7vlkipbh4p.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.0.82.0702221904210.27932@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> However, because ! test -f "$THIS_INDEX" is such a special case
>> (totally new check-in), we can afford to be verbose if we wanted
>> to, and offer tons of possibilities, say:
>> 
>> 	die 'nothing to commit.  You can use "git add file..."
>> to include individual files, or use "git add ." if you want to 
>> include all files in the current directory, for your first
>> commit.'
>> 
>> But if we want to say "for your first commit" in the message, we
>> should also be checking if HEAD commit really does not exist.
>
> Seems to me that the single line message avoids all those issues.

Yup.  Will apply Fredrik's original to 'maint'.