From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:13:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add commit.status, --status, and --no-status
Message-ID: <7vr5r6ndkz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091208060415.GC9951@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:45:27PM -0500, James P. Howard, II wrote:
>
>> This commit provides support for commit.status, --status, and
>> --no-status, which control whether or not the git status information
>> is included in the commit message template when using an editor to
>> prepare the commit message.  It does not affect the effects of a
>> user's commit.template settings.
>
> Thanks, this looks very cleanly done. The only complaint I would make is
> that it should probably include a simple test case.

Yes.  Also I am a _bit_ worried about the name "status", as the longer
term direction is to make "status" not "a preview of commit", may confuse
people who do read Release Notes.