On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > However, because ! test -f "$THIS_INDEX" is such a special case > (totally new check-in), we can afford to be verbose if we wanted > to, and offer tons of possibilities, say: > > die 'nothing to commit. You can use "git add file..." > to include individual files, or use "git add ." if you want to > include all files in the current directory, for your first > commit.' > > But if we want to say "for your first commit" in the message, we > should also be checking if HEAD commit really does not exist. Seems to me that the single line message avoids all those issues. 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