From: Nicolas Pitre Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:06:00 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] make commit message a little more consistent and conforting Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20061215154025.GF17860@spearce.org> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote: > 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. Make it with -v. If the --summary is already irritating to you, imagine how a diffstat could be.