Unable to generate message as no changes files can be seen. Try saving your files or stage any new (untracked) files. about auto-commit-msg

[glassesUSA]

Nope sounds good

[MichaelCurrin]

Hi, thanks for message.

Please follow the instructions from the help.

stage any new (untracked) files

i.e. If you stage all the U files using VS Code UI or git CLI, then those files will be seen by the extension.

[glassesUSA]

Ahh okay thanks!

[MichaelCurrin]

Cool.

BTW for background I have notes in the docs on why handling untracked files is heavy lift in functionality and so you just have to remember to stage files yourself

https://github.com/MichaelCurrin/auto-commit-msg/blob/master/docs/development/advanced/status-vs-diff-index.md#limitation-of-diff-index

[MichaelCurrin]

Let me know if you have any ideas on how I can reword the extensions error message that came up for you - so that it could be clearer for others who run into the same issue.

[glassesUSA]

You have too many files to automatically commit. Please manually commit them and then repress the button

[MichaelCurrin]

What you are suggesting could be used for the case where you commit more than X files.

I was actually referring to a message around what you had originally, not about the number of files, but that the extension saw zero files because they were all new and untracked. So I wanted to see if you had an idea to improve this:

Try saving your files or stage any new (untracked) files.

The tip says to stage untracked files which was the solution so I don't know how to make that clearer.