From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:57:14 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add option to git-commit to allow empty log messages Message-ID: <7vy6h2pn51.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Sverre Rabbelier writes: > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 21:11, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> As a Porcelain, "git commit" has some leeway to enforce sensible policy on >> the users, and "forbid commit that does not explain anything" is one such >> policy.  It is not generally a good idea to expose the full capabilities >> of plumbing to Porcelain if it leads to bad user behaviour, and such >> "artificial" limitations are safety features we do not want to remove. > > You contradict yourself: I personally don't mind very much removing --allow-empty, though.