From: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:24:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was
Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP840FB343954FC20ACA699CAEC30@phx.gbl>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910160357370.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:07:23 +0200 (CEST)
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> Just recently, I had a user request (a very valid one, mind you) where the 
> user does not want to provide a commit message, and wants to just commit 
> all the current changes.  In that particular case, it is very sensible to 
> ask for these things.  It is something utterly simple to ask for. Yet, it 
> is utterly hard with Git, especially if I have to explain it.

Hey Johannes,

It's actually easy, but maybe hard to find:

	$ git commit --cleanup=verbatim -m ""

Cheers,
Sean