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0 pointscrabmusket1y ago0 comments

What's your workflow like to do this?

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Superfud1y ago

Initial empty commit with just a message you can create with "git commit --allow-empty -m'Early commit message"

Then when you have the changes lined up you --amend that same commit.

xorcist1y ago

There's nothing to it, it's just "git commit".

You then add your changes and "git commit --amend".

(These could be aliases. Mine are "ci" and "ca" respectively.)

adastra221y ago

You can do that. But I mean there is literally a spot in the .git directory for the work-in-progress commit message. When you later do git commit -a or whatever, it pulls up the message.

stavros1y ago

Is there any way you can be specific enough for people to reproduce this?

adastra221y ago

I don’t do it, because I don’t find it valuable. I’m kinda confused at why patent poster wants to do this. Just pointing out that git supports it too.

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Superfud1y ago

Initial empty commit with just a message you can create with "git commit --allow-empty -m'Early commit message"

Then when you have the changes lined up you --amend that same commit.

xorcist1y ago

There's nothing to it, it's just "git commit".

You then add your changes and "git commit --amend".

(These could be aliases. Mine are "ci" and "ca" respectively.)

adastra221y ago

You can do that. But I mean there is literally a spot in the .git directory for the work-in-progress commit message. When you later do git commit -a or whatever, it pulls up the message.

stavros1y ago

Is there any way you can be specific enough for people to reproduce this?

adastra221y ago

I don’t do it, because I don’t find it valuable. I’m kinda confused at why patent poster wants to do this. Just pointing out that git supports it too.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse