Re: [PATCH] Add option to git-commit to allow empty log messages

From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Apr 5, 2010, 05:10 UTC
Message-ID: <buor5mu7acd.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vy6h2wsvg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> 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.

Isn't the requirement of using a longish option like "--allow-empty-message" enough of a warning to users though?

Although it seems reasonable for git _discourage_ bad practices, I think that should generally also be moderated with "... but if you _reallllly_ want to, you can do this somewhat annoying thing....". Forcing someone to use commit-tree, though, seems a bit much to me; an annoyingly long option seems about right.

-Miles

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