Re: Git hangs while executing commit-tree

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Apr 20, 2005, 21:48 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504201446510.6467@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <200504202228.35652.rhys@rhyshardwick.co.uk>

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Rhys Hardwick wrote:

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> rhys@metatron:~/repo/tmp.repo$ commit-tree  c80156fafbac377ab35beb076090c8320f874f91
> Committing initial tree c80156fafbac377ab35beb076090c8320f874f91
>  
> At this point, the command seems to be just waiting.

That's _exactly_ what it's doing. It's waiting for you to write a commit message.

Something like

	This is my initial commit of Hello World!
	^D

will make it happy.

Alternatively, you can certainly just write your message beforehand with an editor and just pipe it into commit-tree.

			Linus