From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:39:41 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] commit: make it work with status.short Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v38s7czc9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> 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). Actually, I had a different idea: to make short (and porcelain, by extension) set s->commitable correctly. From a quick analysis, it shouldn't be a hard problem. Then, we can make $ git commit display short-form status when there is nothing to commit.