Re: [PATCH] make commit message a little more consistent and conforting

> I do the same (diff a lot before commit) and thus find commit
> outputting anything at all to be noisy and irritating.  Frankly
> the new
> 
>   git-diff-tree --summary --root --no-commit-id HEAD
> 
> that Junio put on the end is already irritating.
> 
> But it was added to help users verify that commit did what they
> thought it would (see 61f5cb7f).  By the same token sometimes users
> accidentally commit files they didn't mean to, or forget to include
> files they meant to include.  Showing a diffstat would also be a
> final sanity check for them.