Re: [PATCH 2/2] commit: disable status hints when writing to COMMIT_EDITMSG
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
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> Most status hints were written to be accurate when running "git status"
> before running a commit. Many of them are not applicable when the commit
> has already been started, and should not be shown in COMMIT_EDITMSG. The
> most obvious are hints advising to run "git commit",
> "git rebase/am/cherry-pick --continue", which do not make sense when the
> command has already been ran.
> Other messages become slightly inaccurate (e.g. hint to use "git add" to
> add untracked files), as the suggested commands are not immediately
> applicable during the edition of COMMIT_EDITMSG, but would be applicable
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> if the commit is aborted. These messages are both potentially helpful and
> slightly misleading. This patch chose to remove them too, to avoid
> introducing too much complexity in the status code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>