On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 03:42:01PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Jeff King wrote: > Ah, okay. I feel like the main application for this is "I typed some git > diff command, started looking at it, my phone rang, I took the call, and > now I don't know what I'm looking at, and the pager hides the command > line, but quitting the pager loses my place." At least, that's the > situation I'm often in. Press ctrl-z. ;-) > > > Yeah, that's why I think that format-patch should work on content that you > > > haven't committed, generating something you can dump right into an email > > > (with the --- and diffstat that you'd get if you actually did commit and > > > use format-patch now). Hmm, and why don't you actually do the commit after all? You can compose all the details within the commit and you can do the commit on a separate branch or git reset HEAD^ afterwards if you don't want to keep it around. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC. -- Bill Gates -- 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
