Re: [PATCH v3] Advertise the ability to abort a commit

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 07:53:11PM +0200, Anders Melchiorsen wrote:
>
>> An empty commit message is now treated as a normal situation, not an error.
>
> As others have commented, I think the right way to say this is probably
> "it is not reported to the user as an error, but still exits with a
> non-zero exit status".
>
> And I think it looks better.
>
> But:
>
>>  			"# Please enter the commit message for your changes.\n"
>> +			"# To abort the commit, use an empty commit message.\n"
>>  			"# (Comment lines starting with '#' will ");
>
> I still prefer a shortened version of these three lines, as I mentioned
> earlier.