From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:42:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix 'git commit -a' in a newly initialized repository
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702222140360.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070222202812.8882.44375.stgit@c165>

Hi,

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Fredrik Kuivinen wrote:

> +		die 'nothing to commit (use "git add file1 file2" to include for commit)'

Would it not make more sense to tell the user about "git add ."? Maybe 
together with a hint about .gitignore?

This error message is important. The most likely recipients are total git 
newsters, and we really should try to help them here.

Ciao,
Dscho