Re: Make commit messages optional
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
- Date
- Apr 13, 2022, 05:40 UTC
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Hi,
Tao Klerks wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 5:18 PM <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> wrote:
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>> And I still don't get why the --allow-empty-message is not >> sufficient to meet your use case. git supports what is being >> requested already, not that it is allowed where I am. Are we >> talking about setting --allow-empty-message as the default? That is >> a major behavioural change. You could create a git command alias to >> always specify this option. So what is the point of this? >> > > My proposal is that it absolutely is enough, functionally - but the > abundance of "we should change something" concerns in this thread and > elsewhere suggest, to me, that it might not be sufficiently > discoverable; hence the "advice" proposal.
Thanks for this point. I find it to be a very reasonable one. I'd be happy to review a patch adding an advice item when people use options like '-m ""'.
Sincerely, Jonathan