Re: Call Me Gitless

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Aug 19, 2008, 21:49 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0808191647320.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080819203353.GG10544@machine.or.cz>

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 03:42:01PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Jeff King wrote:
> > Ah, okay. I feel like the main application for this is "I typed some git 
> > diff command, started looking at it, my phone rang, I took the call, and 
> > now I don't know what I'm looking at, and the pager hides the command 
> > line, but quitting the pager loses my place." At least, that's the 
> > situation I'm often in.
> 
> Press ctrl-z. ;-)
> 
> > > > Yeah, that's why I think that format-patch should work on content that you 
> > > > haven't committed, generating something you can dump right into an email 
> > > > (with the --- and diffstat that you'd get if you actually did commit and 
> > > > use format-patch now).
> 
> Hmm, and why don't you actually do the commit after all? You can compose
> all the details within the commit and you can do the commit on a
> separate branch or git reset HEAD^ afterwards if you don't want to keep
> it around.

I personally almost always do something like:

$ git checkout -b informational-diff-prefixes $ git commit -a $ git show HEAD > temp.patch $ git checkout master

But then I tend to use "checkout -b; commit -a; checkout" instead of "reset --hard" to get rid of unwanted local changes anyway these days.

	-Daniel
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