From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:54:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wt-status.c: set commitable bit if there is a meaningful merge.
Message-ID: <xmqqzhxe5rcc.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <28440975.G22uFktzHy@thunderbird>

Stephen Smith <ischis2@cox.net> writes:

> On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 8:33:54 PM MST Junio C Hamano wrote:

Wow, that's quite an old discussion ;-)

>> So if you do this:
>> 
>>     $ git reset --hard HEAD
>>     $ >a-new-file && git add a-new-file
>>     $ git commit --dry-run --short; echo $?
>> 
>> you'd get "No, there is nothing interesting to commit", which is
>> clearly bogus.
>
> I was about to start working on working on this and ran the test you suggested 
> back in 2016.   I don't get the error message from that time period.  I 
> believe that this was fixed.   

After these:

    $ git reset --hard HEAD
    $ >a-new-file && git add a-new-file

running 

    $ git commit --dry-run; echo $?
    $ git commit --dry-run --short; echo $?

tells me that "--short" still does not notice that there _is_
something to be committed, either with an ancient version like
v2.10.5 or more modern versions of Git.  The "long" version exits
with 0, while "--short" one exists with 1.

So...?