Re: [PATCH 0/2] am: support --always option to am empty commits

From: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date: Nov 12, 2021, 15:28 UTC
Message-ID: <ca9baf51-28ca-048d-ded6-f4834874f7c3@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy25tj2fi.fsf@gitster.g>

Am 12.11.21 um 07:47 schrieb Junio C Hamano:

Show 11 quoted lines

> René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:
>
>> Am 12.11.21 um 05:58 schrieb Aleen via GitGitGadget:
>>> Since that git has supported the --always option for the git-format-patch
>>> command to create a patch with empty commit message, git-am should support
>>> applying and committing with empty patches.
>>
>> The symmetry is compelling, but "always" is quite generic.  I can see
>> e.g. someone expecting "git am --always" to imply --keep-non-patch.
>
> What symmetry?

To have the same option in both producer and consumer.

René

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.