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Re: [RFC] Disabling status hints in COMMIT_EDITMSG

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Sep 11, 2013, 07:24 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> But at the same time, I feel that these redundant lines, especially
> the latter one, would give the users a stronger cue than just saying
> that "bar is Untracked"; "do X to include" reminds that bar will not
> be included if nothing is done.

The one which draw my attention was "(use "git commit" to conclude merge)" which is particularly counter-productive when you are already doing a "git commit". The advice for untracked files is less counter-productive, but while we're removing the non-sensical ones, I think it makes sense to remove the essentially-useless ones too.

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  1. Matthieu MoySep 10, 2013
  2. Chris PackhamSep 10, 2013
  3. Matthieu MoySep 10, 2013
  4. Chris PackhamSep 10, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 10, 2013
  6. Matthieu MoySep 11, 2013
  7. Javier DomingoSep 11, 2013
  8. Matthieu MoySep 11, 2013
  9. John SzakmeisterSep 11, 2013
  10. Javier DomingoSep 11, 2013
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2013
  12. Matthieu MoySep 11, 2013
  13. Jonathan NiederSep 10, 2013

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