Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Yup. Will apply Fredrik's original to 'maint'. - 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