From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:48:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Git hangs while executing commit-tree
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:
>
> 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