On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > 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? Well... If you're that acquainted with GIT to perform the above, I'm sure a message like "use "git add file1 file2" to include for commit" won't leave you puzzled. ;-) Nicolas - 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