Hi again,
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> so far two people have suggested an alias
> for this and both have completly failed to achived the desired result.
I had thought Adam already suggested using ‘git diff-index --cached
--quiet HEAD’ [1].
You can do so like this:
cat <<-EOF >$HOME/bin/git-ci
#!/bin/sh
cleanindex() { git diff-index --cached --quiet HEAD; }
if test "$1" != "-h"
then
echo >&2 usage: git ci &&
exit 129
fi
if test "$#" != 0
then
echo >&2 Please use git commit directly.
if cleanindex
then
echo >&2 '(no staged changes)'
else
git diff --cached --name-status
fi
exit 129
fi
if cleanindex
then
exec git commit -a
else
exec git commit
fi
EOF
chmod +x $HOME/bin/git-ci
But dense as I am, I still can’t imagine why
echo '[alias] ci = commit -a' >>$HOME/.gitconfig
wouldn’t be better in every way (especially if Jakub’s
commit.preserveindex is enabled).
> If you know of a test to check if an index exists or not, preferably one
> that does consider new files being added or files being removed as
> "index exists", then please do speak up.
test -e .git/index
I know, not what you meant. But the condition you are looking for is
“staged content does not match the last commit”, not “the tool has
suddenly entered a different mode”.
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
[1] Well, he did:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/698001/focus=145581
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