From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:46:38 GMT
Subject: Re: A little mystery - crash caused by empty commit message.
Message-ID: <4991691E.6010808@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090210113234.GE12089@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King schrieb:
> It _is_ generally hard to get an empty commit message using "git
> commit". But it's possible there is a bug in cherry-pick, rebase, or
> some ohter low-level tool that accidentally erased your message
> as the commit was moved.

Since this is on Windows, chances are that this is an encoding issue. If
you have non-ASCII in the commit message, but i18n.commitEncoding is
unset, then you can introduce invalid UTF8 sequences easily. This could
confuse one of the pipelines (rebase, am, cherry-pick, etc).

You should set

	git config i18n.commitencoding cp1252

(or whatever is appropriate for you locale). I even have

	git config i18n.logoutputencoding cp850

so that I see correct umlauts if I happen to run git log without a pager
in CMD ;) (I rarely do that, though.)

-- Hannes