[j-nsp] purpose of "commit check"?

[Phil Shafer]

Aaron Dewell writes:
>Yes, the commit will fail if commit check would have also failed.

Yup, "commit check" just passes a flag into the commit logic which
triggers an early return.

>I tend to use commit 
>check as a check on myself when I've done a big cut-and-paste, or when creating a bunch
>of objects.

"show | compare" is also useful for this sort of verification.

>The time to fail of commit check is less than commit if there are discrepancies.  

This shouldn't be true, given that they share the same logic.

>>> If yes, then what is the point of "commit check"?

Doing a pre-check before a commit is mostly about working up the
confidence that you're not going to break something.  We've got
"commit confirmed" to help with this also.

Thanks,
 Phil