From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:08:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] am: support --always option to am empty commits
Message-ID: <xmqqmtm9tkzz.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <ca9baf51-28ca-048d-ded6-f4834874f7c3@web.de>

René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

>>> 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.

Well, "--always" that stands for "--always-show-header" seeps
through to the command line parser from revision.c layer but that is
by accident, and is not even documented.  We may want to file it as
a bug and fix it later.

As you mentioned, allow-empty-commit does sound like a much better
name.