magit: Previous commit message keeps appearing

magit: Previous commit message keeps appearing

[Florian Lindner]

Hello,

from magit-status I use s to stage a couple of files, then "c c" to commit. 
In another buffer I can edit the commit message. What puzzles me, is why 
magit shows the commit message of the previous commit including the file 
list.

Is this by design, some bug or am I wrong?

Emacs 24.3, magit from melpa.

Thanks,
Florian

Re: magit: Previous commit message keeps appearing

[Sebastian Wiesner]

Am Donnerstag, 7. August 2014, 12:56:59 schrieb Florian Lindner:
> Hello,
> 
> from magit-status I use s to stage a couple of files, then "c c" to commit.
> In another buffer I can edit the commit message. What puzzles me, is why
> magit shows the commit message of the previous commit including the file
> list.

Magit simply visits 	the COMMIT_EDITMSG file in .git/ when you make a commit.  
Presumably, the buffer for this file wasn't killed after your previous commit, 
and you don't have auto-revert-mode on.  Hence, the next commit would just 
bring the existing COMMIT_EDITMSG buffer up again, with the old contents, like 
if you re-visit a file again.

COMMIT_EDITMSG will have the right contents though, so M-x revert-buffer will 
update the buffer accordingly.

Re: magit: Previous commit message keeps appearing

[Quanyang Liu]

On 08/07/2014 06:56 PM, Florian Lindner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> from magit-status I use s to stage a couple of files, then "c c" to commit.
> In another buffer I can edit the commit message. What puzzles me, is why
> magit shows the commit message of the previous commit including the file
> list.
>
> Is this by design, some bug or am I wrong?
>
> Emacs 24.3, magit from melpa.
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
>
>
I have not seen that... Does it happen every time you commit?

-- 
Quanyang Liu （刘全阳）
Undergraduate
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
E-mail:lqymgt@gmail.com

Re: magit: Previous commit message keeps appearing

[Florian Lindner]

Quanyang Liu wrote:

> On 08/07/2014 06:56 PM, Florian Lindner wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> from magit-status I use s to stage a couple of files, then "c c" to
>> commit. In another buffer I can edit the commit message. What puzzles me,
>> is why magit shows the commit message of the previous commit including
>> the file list.
>>
>> Is this by design, some bug or am I wrong?
>>
>> Emacs 24.3, magit from melpa.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Florian
>>
>>
> I have not seen that... Does it happen every time you commit?

Sebastian has explained it very well. I had a COMMIT_EDITMSG in my .git 
directory. Since I was a kind of scared when this wrong commit message 
appeared I always canceled the commit und the MSG persisted. Now I've 
deleted the COMMIT_EDITMSG and did various successfull commits. It never 
came back.

Regards,
Florian