Re: [PATCH 2/2] commit: make it work with status.short

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>

Date

Jun 24, 2013, 15:39 UTC

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Junio C Hamano wrote:

> As I said in the other message, I'll revert the merge of the topic
> branch from 'master' for now, and queue this on top of the topic so
> that we will have the preventive fix when the topic is in a better
> shape for the other possible breakage on the "--branch" thing.

Thanks, a quick revert is probably the best way to go.

> That is, "git commit --short/--porcelain/-z" has these three
> possibilities:
>
>  - work (ignoring these options);
>
>  - work (showing the template in some kind of "short" format); or
>
>  - error out (clearly indicating that we did *not* make a commit).

  $ git commit

display short-form status when there is nothing to commit.