Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 26, 2009, 22:22 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910262317430.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP840FB343954FC20ACA699CAEC30@phx.gbl>

Hi,

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Sean Estabrooks wrote:

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> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:07:23 +0200 (CEST)
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > Just recently, I had a user request (a very valid one, mind you) where 
> > the user does not want to provide a commit message, and wants to just 
> > commit all the current changes.  In that particular case, it is very 
> > sensible to ask for these things.  It is something utterly simple to 
> > ask for. Yet, it is utterly hard with Git, especially if I have to 
> > explain it.
> 
> Hey Johannes,
> 
> It's actually easy, but maybe hard to find:
> 
> 	$ git commit --cleanup=verbatim -m ""

Of course that leaves out the main part. But it is simple once you know it (I did not): git add -A (we even went out of our way _not_ to name the long option --addremove, but --all -- it does not seem to be an expressive-enough option name to me, but what does my impression matter...)

So I retract my claim that it is utterly hard to do with Git (but not the rest).

Ciao, Dscho