Hi, On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Fredrik Kuivinen wrote: > > > > > + die 'nothing to commit (use "git add file1 file2" to include for commit)' > > > > Would it not make more sense to tell the user about "git add ."? > > Isn't what the patch does? IMHO it looks just like the empty commit > message which is good. I wanted to get at the "." thing. You know, when I start a project with git, there are usually some files there already. Provided I have a .gitignore there, I can just say "git add ." and be done. But maybe that is _not_ common practice? > > Maybe together with a hint about .gitignore? > > > > This error message is important. The most likely recipients are total > > git newsters, and we really should try to help them here. > > Sure. But to really help newsters it is better _not_ to talk about > .gitignore at all. It certainly won't exist at that point anyway. Hmm. That is a really good point. Hmmm. I think you're right. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html