From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 03:29:42 GMT
Subject: Re: amend warnings with no changes staged
Message-ID: <xmqqpnljkm3d.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190806030026.GA8864@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>>> Some non-judgemental descriptive output like
>>>
>>> 	$ git commit --amend --no-edit
>>> 	No changes.
>>> 	$
>>>
>>> would address this case, without bothering people who are doing it
>>> intentionally.  So I think there's room for a simple improvement here.
>>
>> I do that to refresh the committer timestamp.
>
> I do, too.  The proposal is, paraphrasing,
>
> 	$ git commit --amend --no-edit
> 	Ah, I see that you want me to refresh the committer timestamp.
> 	Done, as requested.
> 	$

Ah, OK then.  I somehow misread "No changes." as an error message.