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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 19:47:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqtvavko1h.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190806021618.GC61803@google.com> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Mon, 5 Aug 2019 19:16:18 -0700")

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Lukas Gross wrote:
>
>> I had intended to stage commits but forgot to do so. Git responded
>> with a normal commit creation message, so I pushed to the remote to
>> begin a CI build. When the build failed for the same reason, I
>> realized I had forgotten to stage the changes. An additional line in
>> the response to the effect of “Warning: did you mean to amend with no
>> changes?” would be very helpful to shorten this feedback loop.
>
> On second thought:
>
> 	$ git commit --amend --no-edit
> 	[detached HEAD 33a3db8805] Git 2.23-rc1
> 	 Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> 	 Date: Fri Aug 2 13:12:24 2019 -0700
> 	 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 	$
>
> 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.  Do I now have to say
something silly like

	$ GIT_EDITOR=true git commit --amend

to defeat the above (mis)feature, or is there a cleaner workaround?

Obviously I'd prefer to see a solution that does not force existing
users to work around the new behaviour ;-)

> Care to take a stab at it?  builtin/commit.c would be the place to
> start.

I'd suggest not to start it before we know what we want.  I am not
yet convinced that "--amend --no-edit will become a no-op" is the
final solution we want.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-06  2:47 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 [this message]
2019-08-06  3:00         ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-08-06  3:29           ` Junio C Hamano
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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