From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2017 20:03:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Why doesn't merge fail if message has only sign-off?
Message-ID: <1499198607.6428.9.camel@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq60f9mo6b.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 10:21 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I think that it is not by design that it doesn't fail.  It's not
> like we decided to allow s-o-b only merge because we found a reason
> why it is a good idea to do so.
> 
> So I do not think anybody minds too deeply if somebody came up a
> patch to "fix" it.  It's just that nobody tried to create such a
> silly merge in real life so far (I do not think you did, either--you
> found this out by playing around trying to find corner cases, no?)
> 
Yes and no. I found this out while playing around with the "insert
notes in the commit template" patch I sent previously. I wasn't trying
to find corner cases, though.

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Kaartic