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Re: [BUG] - "git commit --amend" commits, when exiting the editor with no changes written

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Feb 2, 2010, 23:58 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.1002030056480.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
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Hi,
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Eugene Sajine wrote:
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> > Of course, you could come up with wonderfully complicated strategies 
> > such as "if nothing was added, then an unmodified commit message means 
> > 'abort', else it means 'go ahead'", but I hope that you agree that 
> > this would be very bad from the users' POV: it would be utterly 
> > confusing.
> 
> No complicated strategies necessary.

Sorry, your "if message was not saved, abort" is so out of line with any program I use that this would be highly confusing (maybe "complicated" was the wrong choice of words).

IMO it would not buy us anything over the current solution, which also requires the user to read the manual.

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. Eugene SajineFeb 2, 2010
  2. Jacob HelwigFeb 2, 2010
  3. Avery PennarunFeb 2, 2010
  4. Eugene SajineFeb 2, 2010
  5. Wincent ColaiutaFeb 2, 2010
  6. Eugene SajineFeb 2, 2010
  7. Erik Faye-LundFeb 2, 2010
  8. Wincent ColaiutaFeb 2, 2010
  9. Eugene SajineFeb 2, 2010
  10. Avery PennarunFeb 2, 2010
  11. Eugene SajineFeb 2, 2010
  12. Johannes SchindelinFeb 2, 2010
  13. Eugene SajineFeb 2, 2010
  14. Avery PennarunFeb 2, 2010
  15. Larry D'AnnaFeb 3, 2010
  16. Jeff KingFeb 3, 2010
  17. Jeff KingFeb 3, 2010
  18. Avery PennarunFeb 3, 2010
  19. Johannes SchindelinFeb 2, 2010
  20. Eugene SajineFeb 2, 2010
  21. Erik Faye-LundFeb 2, 2010
  22. Eugene SajineFeb 2, 2010
  23. Erik Faye-LundFeb 3, 2010
  24. Eugene SajineFeb 3, 2010
  25. SZEDER GáborFeb 3, 2010
  26. Matthieu MoyFeb 3, 2010
  27. aborting rebase -i right at the start, was Re: [BUG] - "git commit --amend" commits, when exiting the editor with no changes writtenJohannes Schindelin, Feb 3, 2010
  28. SZEDER GáborFeb 3, 2010
  29. Eugene SajineFeb 3, 2010
  30. Matthieu MoyFeb 3, 2010
  31. Eugene SajineFeb 3, 2010
  32. Jonathan NiederFeb 3, 2010
  33. Jonathan NiederFeb 3, 2010
  34. Wincent ColaiutaFeb 3, 2010
  35. Eugene SajineFeb 3, 2010
  36. Avery PennarunFeb 3, 2010
  37. Eugene SajineFeb 3, 2010
  38. Avery PennarunFeb 3, 2010
  39. Matthieu MoyFeb 3, 2010
  40. Johannes SchindelinFeb 2, 2010
  41. Eugene SajineFeb 3, 2010
  42. Johannes SchindelinFeb 3, 2010
  43. Paolo BonziniFeb 3, 2010
  44. Junio C HamanoFeb 2, 2010
  45. Avery PennarunFeb 2, 2010

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