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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Gross <lukasgross@u.northwestern.edu>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: amend warnings with no changes staged
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 20:29:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqpnljkm3d.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190806030026.GA8864@google.com> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Mon, 5 Aug 2019 20:00:26 -0700")

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-06  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-06  0:28 amend warnings with no changes staged Lukas Gross
2019-08-06  1:30 ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-08-06  1:37   ` Lukas Gross
2019-08-06  2:01     ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-08-06  2:16     ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-08-06  2:47       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-06  3:00         ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-08-06  3:29           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2019-08-06  3:53             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-06 16:32               ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-06  4:19       ` Jeff King
2019-08-06 19:11         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-08  9:46           ` Jeff King

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