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From: Stephen Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wt-status.c: set commitable bit if there is a meaningful merge.
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 22:33:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <28440975.G22uFktzHy@thunderbird> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1455590305-30923-1-git-send-email-ischis2@cox.net

On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 8:33:54 PM MST Junio C Hamano wrote:
> In fact, "commit --dry-run" is already broken without this "a merge
> ends up in a no-op" corner case.  The management of s->commitable
> flag and dry_run_commit() that uses it are unfortunately more broken
> than I originally thought.
> 
<snip>
> This function is only called from wt_status_print(), which in turn
> is only called from run_status() in commit.c when the status format
> is unspecified or set to STATUS_FORMAT_LONG.
> 
> 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.   




  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-22  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1649296.sC1eN3ni6k@thunderbird>
2016-02-09  1:55 ` Bug report: 'git commit --dry-run' corner case: returns error ("nothing to commit") when all conflicts resolved to HEAD Stephen & Linda Smith
2016-02-16  2:38   ` [PATCH] wt-status.c: set commitable bit if there is a meaningful merge Stephen P. Smith
2016-02-16  8:20     ` Philip Oakley
2016-02-16 21:54       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-16 23:26       ` Stephen & Linda Smith
2016-02-16 23:40       ` Stephen & Linda Smith
2016-02-16 23:30     ` Stephen & Linda Smith
2016-02-17  3:33     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-17  5:06       ` [PATCH v2] " Stephen P. Smith
2016-02-17  4:58     ` [PATCH] " Stephen & Linda Smith
2016-05-10  4:51     ` Stephen & Linda Smith
2018-08-22  5:33     ` Stephen Smith [this message]
2018-08-22 15:39       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-22 15:54       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-23  1:28       ` Stephen & Linda Smith
2016-02-12  1:04 ` Bug report: 'git commit --dry-run' corner case: returns error ("nothing to commit") when all conflicts resolved to HEAD Stephen & Linda Smith

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