Re: [RFC] Disabling status hints in COMMIT_EDITMSG

2013-09-11 Thread Matthieu Moy
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: But at the same time, I feel that these redundant lines, especially the latter one, would give the users a stronger cue than just saying that bar is Untracked; do X to include reminds that bar will not be included if nothing is done. The one which

Re: [RFC] Disabling status hints in COMMIT_EDITMSG

2013-09-11 Thread Javier Domingo
IMHO, It is alright as it is. I have been using git for 4~ years now, and I still find very useful those lines. They are like a git status while committing, and it's the key to avoid accidental commits of objects or forgetting files in a commit. Between that and that the commit message can't be

Re: [RFC] Disabling status hints in COMMIT_EDITMSG

2013-09-11 Thread Matthieu Moy
Javier Domingo javier...@gmail.com writes: IMHO, It is alright as it is. I have been using git for 4~ years now, and I still find very useful those lines. They are like a git status while committing, and it's the key to avoid accidental commits of objects or forgetting files in a commit.

Re: [RFC] Disabling status hints in COMMIT_EDITMSG

2013-09-11 Thread John Szakmeister
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Matthieu Moy matthieu@grenoble-inp.fr wrote: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: But at the same time, I feel that these redundant lines, especially the latter one, would give the users a stronger cue than just saying that bar is Untracked; do X to

Re: [RFC] Disabling status hints in COMMIT_EDITMSG

2013-09-11 Thread Javier Domingo
That extra info doesn't occupy too much, and helps distinguish between sections. They do also remember you the commands to use (thought after some time using git, you may not need it). Cheers, Javier -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to

Re: [RFC] Disabling status hints in COMMIT_EDITMSG

2013-09-11 Thread Junio C Hamano
Matthieu Moy matthieu@grenoble-inp.fr writes: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: But at the same time, I feel that these redundant lines, especially the latter one, would give the users a stronger cue than just saying that bar is Untracked; do X to include reminds that bar will not

Re: [RFC] Disabling status hints in COMMIT_EDITMSG

2013-09-11 Thread Matthieu Moy
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Matthieu Moy matthieu@grenoble-inp.fr writes: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: But at the same time, I feel that these redundant lines, especially the latter one, would give the users a stronger cue than just saying that bar is

[RFC] Disabling status hints in COMMIT_EDITMSG

2013-09-10 Thread Matthieu Moy
Hi, I just noticed that the template COMMIT_EDITMSG was containing status hints, and that they were not particularty helpfull _during_ a commit. I think it would be sensible to ignore advice.statusHints and disable hints unconditionally when writting to COMMIT_EDITMSG. Any objection? --

Re: [RFC] Disabling status hints in COMMIT_EDITMSG

2013-09-10 Thread Chris Packham
On 10/09/13 21:19, Matthieu Moy wrote: Hi, I just noticed that the template COMMIT_EDITMSG was containing status hints, and that they were not particularty helpfull _during_ a commit. I think it would be sensible to ignore advice.statusHints and disable hints unconditionally when writting

Re: [RFC] Disabling status hints in COMMIT_EDITMSG

2013-09-10 Thread Matthieu Moy
Chris Packham judge.pack...@gmail.com writes: On 10/09/13 21:19, Matthieu Moy wrote: Hi, I just noticed that the template COMMIT_EDITMSG was containing status hints, and that they were not particularty helpfull _during_ a commit. I think it would be sensible to ignore advice.statusHints

Re: [RFC] Disabling status hints in COMMIT_EDITMSG

2013-09-10 Thread Junio C Hamano
Matthieu Moy matthieu@grenoble-inp.fr writes: Hi, I just noticed that the template COMMIT_EDITMSG was containing status hints, and that they were not particularty helpfull _during_ a commit. I think it would be sensible to ignore advice.statusHints and disable hints unconditionally when

Re: [RFC] Disabling status hints in COMMIT_EDITMSG

2013-09-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Matthieu Moy wrote: I just noticed that the template COMMIT_EDITMSG was containing status hints, and that they were not particularty helpfull _during_ a commit. I think it would be sensible to ignore advice.statusHints and disable hints unconditionally when writting to COMMIT_EDITMSG. Any