From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 04:16:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] commit: add a commit.allowEmpty config variable
Message-ID: <xmqqzhucpa37.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <87zhuc1xcx.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> Agreed. I'm happy to see the test for-loop gone as I noted in
> https://public-inbox.org/git/87d0rm7zeo.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/ but as
> noted in that v3 feedback the whole "why would anyone want this?"
> explanation is still missing, and this still smells like a workaround
> for a bug we should be fixing elsewhere in the sequencing code.

Thanks.  I share the same impression that this is sweeping a bug
under a wrong rug.