From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 01:27:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] am: Allow passing --no-verify flag
Message-ID: <xmqqv8n19ofx.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <Y4D+UU6l3YN9r9Xn@orome>

Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> writes:

> Thinking a bit more about this, if we let applypatch-msg run but ignore
> failures and continue on to commit the result, wouldn't that potentially
> allow committing garbage? I'm thinking about cases where applypatch-msg
> may attempt to normalize the message and fails badly, leaving a partial
> commit message or none at all.

That is a very reasonable way to think about this.  So I am sold on
your approach of not running the hook at all.

Thanks.