Re: Make commit messages optional
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Apr 11, 2022, 21:09 UTC
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- <20220411181819.GF163591@kunlun.suse.cz>
Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> writes:
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>> In any case, "--allow-empty-messages" exists, and that is where we >> draw the line. We will not bend over backwards beyond it. > > Isn't special-casing the empty message bending over backwards to some > other influence instead?
Not at all.
Even though the low level plumbing commands try to be accomodating to people with different tastes, the Porcelain layer is opinionated itself, and tries to give defaults that encourage good development practice to interactive users. There is no need for some other influence---we chose to reject creating commits with empty messages to prevent mistakes that novices may find hard to recover from, and that's final.