Re: Hey - A Conceptual Simplication....

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 20, 2009, 06:33 UTC
Message-ID: <7vmy2h904e.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091120013545.GA22556@dpotapov.dyndns.org>

Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> writes:

> It is more difficult to make this mistake with Git than many others
> VCSes, because Git shows the list of files that are changed but not
> committed as well as the list of untracked files when you try to commit
> something.

Not really in practice. Too many people carry their existing practice of using -m to write a useless single liner commit log message that they acquired while using their previous SCM. Arguably, useless log messages are less of a problem on systems like CVS/SVN because they do not do useful log summarization such as "log -- paths..." or "shortlog", so they can be excused for learning the practice in the first place, though.

That incidentally is exactly why earlier we (mostly me and Linus) recommended people not to teach "commit -m" to new people, but of course nobody listened ;-).