From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:06:53 GMT
Subject: Re: is it kosher for pre-commit to change what's staged?
Message-ID: <F0C8038B-0D8C-4A50-9934-9D9CF26FF9F9@sb.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vlj4zfrgt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Nov 11, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
> 
>> ... The
>> pre-commit script there stores some metadata about files that git
>> usually doesn't track, by putting it in a dotfile, and stages that
>> dotfile for commit. Which currently works fine, except for the minor
>> problem that the user doesn't see the dotfile listed in the commit
>> message.
> 
> I am hearing "list of files in the commit message", and am getting
> confused.  As far as I know we don't store such a list in the commit
> message.
> 
> Puzzled.

I believe he means in the # comments at the bottom of the editor. They
contain the output of `git status` as a reminder of what you're
committing.

-Kevin Ballard