Re: [Gnu-arch-users] "tla commit" generates a patch-set even if there are no changes

[Stefan Monnier]

>> tla isn't intended to be the user-friendly frontend, and wrappers or 
>> scripts are.

That's an interesting view point, and seen from Emacs support's point of
view, I'd tend to agree.  But then it means that neither --force not the
current behavior are what we want: the wrapper should be able to tell
whether the commit is going to be empty or not before running `tla commit'.
Of course we can already do that with `tla changes' but it's an operation
that's pretty costly.  For scripts, you'd want to use
`tla changes -o foo', then check whether `foo' is empty, and if not
do `tla commit foo'.  Or something along those lines.


        Stefan