On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:58:13PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> "# Please enter the commit message for your changes.\n" > >> + "# To abort the commit, use an empty commit message.\n" > >> "# (Comment lines starting with '#' will "); > > > > I still prefer a shortened version of these three lines, as I mentioned > > earlier. > > I tend to agree; please make it so ;-) Hmm, I didn't realize you had already applied the original patch. Here is my previous patch, rebased on top of the current master. I like this wording, but there is perhaps some disagreement. I will let you apply, tweak, or ignore as you desire. :) Note that this still has the error message change that Anders put in a later patch, but is not in master. Should that be a separate patch (I really didn't anticipate this much discussion for such a simple change, but I think there is a rule of thumb about patch size and bike sheds...)? -- >8 -- Compact commit template message We recently let the user know explicitly that an empty commit message will abort the commit. However, this adds yet another line to the template; let's rephrase and re-wrap so that this fits back on two lines. This patch also makes the "fatal: empty commit message?" warning a bit less scary, since this is now a "feature" instead of an error. However, we retain the non-zero exit status to indicate to callers that nothing was committed. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- builtin-commit.c | 19 ++++++++++++------- t/t7502-commit.sh | 11 +++++------ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-commit.c b/builtin-commit.c index f7c053a..b783e6e 100644 --- a/builtin-commit.c +++ b/builtin-commit.c @@ -554,14 +554,18 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix) fprintf(fp, "\n" - "# Please enter the commit message for your changes.\n" - "# To abort the commit, use an empty commit message.\n" - "# (Comment lines starting with '#' will "); + "# Please enter the commit message for your changes."); if (cleanup_mode == CLEANUP_ALL) - fprintf(fp, "not be included)\n"); + fprintf(fp, + " Lines starting\n" + "# with '#' will be ignored, and an empty" + " message aborts the commit.\n"); else /* CLEANUP_SPACE, that is. */ - fprintf(fp, "be kept.\n" - "# You can remove them yourself if you want to)\n"); + fprintf(fp, + " Lines starting\n" + "# with '#' will be kept; you may remove them" + " yourself if you want to.\n" + "# An empty message aborts the commit.\n"); if (only_include_assumed) fprintf(fp, "# %s\n", only_include_assumed); @@ -1004,7 +1008,8 @@ int cmd_commit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) stripspace(&sb, cleanup_mode == CLEANUP_ALL); if (sb.len < header_len || message_is_empty(&sb, header_len)) { rollback_index_files(); - die("no commit message? aborting commit."); + fprintf(stderr, "Aborting commit due to empty commit message.\n"); + exit(1); } strbuf_addch(&sb, '\0'); if (is_encoding_utf8(git_commit_encoding) && !is_utf8(sb.buf)) diff --git a/t/t7502-commit.sh b/t/t7502-commit.sh index f111263..3eb9fae 100755 --- a/t/t7502-commit.sh +++ b/t/t7502-commit.sh @@ -141,16 +141,15 @@ test_expect_success 'cleanup commit messages (strip,-F)' ' echo "sample -# Please enter the commit message for your changes. -# To abort the commit, use an empty commit message. -# (Comment lines starting with '#' will not be included)" >expect +# Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting +# with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit." >expect test_expect_success 'cleanup commit messages (strip,-F,-e)' ' echo >>negative && { echo;echo sample;echo; } >text && git commit -e -F text -a && - head -n 5 .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG >actual && + head -n 4 .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG >actual && test_cmp expect actual ' @@ -163,7 +162,7 @@ test_expect_success 'author different from committer' ' echo >>negative && git commit -e -m "sample" - head -n 8 .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG >actual && + head -n 7 .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG >actual && test_cmp expect actual ' @@ -182,7 +181,7 @@ test_expect_success 'committer is automatic' ' # must fail because there is no change test_must_fail git commit -e -m "sample" ) && - head -n 9 .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG | \ + head -n 8 .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG | \ sed "s/^# Committer: .*/# Committer:/" >actual && test_cmp expect actual ' -- 1.6.0.rc1.169.g34ee -- 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