Re: [PATCH] commit: make --only --allow-empty work without paths

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 5, 2016, 20:36 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqh96i3ygs.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161203162318.uv27n4uhylobegto@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 07:59:49AM +0100, Andreas Krey wrote:
>
>> > OK. I'm not sure why you would want to create an empty commit in such a
>> > case.
>> 
>> User: Ok tool, make me a pullreq.
>> 
>> Tool: But you haven't mentioned any issue
>>       in your commit messages. Which are they?
>> 
>> User: Ok, that would be A-123.
>> 
>> Tool: git commit --allow-empty -m 'FIX: A-123'
>
> OK. I think "tool" is slightly funny here, but I get that is part of the
> real world works. Thanks for illustrating.

I am not sure if I understand. Why isn't the FIX: thing added to the commit being pulled by amending it? Would the convention be for the responder of a pull-request to fetch and drop the tip commit?