" git config --global user.name \"Your Name\"\n"
" git config --global user.email you@example.com\n"
"\n"
-"If the identity used for this commit is wrong, you can fix it with:\n"
+"After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with:\n"
"\n"
-" git commit --amend --author='Your Name <you@example.com>'\n";
+" git commit --amend --reset-author\n";
static const char empty_amend_advice[] =
"You asked to amend the most recent commit, but doing so would make\n"
OPT__VERBOSE(&verbose, "show diff in commit message template"),
OPT_GROUP("Commit message options"),
- OPT_FILENAME('F', "file", &logfile, "read log from file"),
- OPT_STRING(0, "author", &force_author, "AUTHOR", "override author for commit"),
- OPT_STRING(0, "date", &force_date, "DATE", "override date for commit"),
- OPT_CALLBACK('m', "message", &message, "MESSAGE", "specify commit message", opt_parse_m),
- OPT_STRING('c', "reedit-message", &edit_message, "COMMIT", "reuse and edit message from specified commit"),
- OPT_STRING('C', "reuse-message", &use_message, "COMMIT", "reuse message from specified commit"),
- OPT_STRING(0, "fixup", &fixup_message, "COMMIT", "use autosquash formatted message to fixup specified commit"),
- OPT_STRING(0, "squash", &squash_message, "COMMIT", "use autosquash formatted message to squash specified commit"),
+ OPT_FILENAME('F', "file", &logfile, "read message from file"),
+ OPT_STRING(0, "author", &force_author, "author", "override author for commit"),
+ OPT_STRING(0, "date", &force_date, "date", "override date for commit"),
+ OPT_CALLBACK('m', "message", &message, "message", "commit message", opt_parse_m),
+ OPT_STRING('c', "reedit-message", &edit_message, "commit", "reuse and edit message from specified commit"),
+ OPT_STRING('C', "reuse-message", &use_message, "commit", "reuse message from specified commit"),
+ OPT_STRING(0, "fixup", &fixup_message, "commit", "use autosquash formatted message to fixup specified commit"),
+ OPT_STRING(0, "squash", &squash_message, "commit", "use autosquash formatted message to squash specified commit"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "reset-author", &renew_authorship, "the commit is authored by me now (used with -C-c/--amend)"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('s', "signoff", &signoff, "add Signed-off-by:"),
OPT_FILENAME('t', "template", &template_file, "use specified template file"),
STATUS_FORMAT_SHORT),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "branch", &status_show_branch, "show branch information"),
OPT_SET_INT(0, "porcelain", &status_format,
- "show porcelain output format", STATUS_FORMAT_PORCELAIN),
+ "machine-readable output", STATUS_FORMAT_PORCELAIN),
OPT_BOOLEAN('z', "null", &null_termination,
"terminate entries with NUL"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "amend", &amend, "amend previous commit"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "no-post-rewrite", &no_post_rewrite, "bypass post-rewrite hook"),
- { OPTION_STRING, 'u', "untracked-files", &untracked_files_arg, "mode", "show untracked files, optional modes: all, normal, no (Default: all)", PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, NULL, (intptr_t)"all" },
+ { OPTION_STRING, 'u', "untracked-files", &untracked_files_arg, "mode", "show untracked files, optional modes: all, normal, no. (Default: all)", PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, NULL, (intptr_t)"all" },
/* end commit contents options */
{ OPTION_BOOLEAN, 0, "allow-empty", &allow_empty, NULL,
if (strbuf_read_file(&sb, git_path("SQUASH_MSG"), 0) < 0)
die_errno("could not read SQUASH_MSG");
hook_arg1 = "squash";
- } else if (template_file && !stat(template_file, &statbuf)) {
+ } else if (template_file) {
if (strbuf_read_file(&sb, template_file, 0) < 0)
die_errno("could not read '%s'", template_file);
hook_arg1 = "template";
OPT_BOOLEAN('b', "branch", &status_show_branch,
"show branch information"),
OPT_SET_INT(0, "porcelain", &status_format,
- "show porcelain output format",
+ "machine-readable output",
STATUS_FORMAT_PORCELAIN),
OPT_BOOLEAN('z', "null", &null_termination,
"terminate entries with NUL"),