From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:06:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix 'git commit -a' in a newly initialized repository
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.0.82.0702221904210.27932@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vhctddge7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> However, because ! test -f "$THIS_INDEX" is such a special case
> (totally new check-in), we can afford to be verbose if we wanted
> to, and offer tons of possibilities, say:
> 
> 	die 'nothing to commit.  You can use "git add file..."
> to include individual files, or use "git add ." if you want to 
> include all files in the current directory, for your first
> commit.'
> 
> But if we want to say "for your first commit" in the message, we
> should also be checking if HEAD commit really does not exist.

Seems to me that the single line message avoids all those issues.


Nicolas