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Date:   Mon, 11 Apr 2022 20:18:19 +0200
From:   Michal =?iso-8859-1?Q?Such=E1nek?= <msuchanek@suse.de>
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On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 10:59:47AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Apr 08 2022, Erik Cervin Edin wrote:
> >
> >> At the risk of bikeshedding.
> >>
> >> The case in favor of not allowing empty commit messages by default is
> >> that most of the time, empty commit messages are useless.
> >>
> >> I've written my fair share of poor commit messages (-,..., wip, foo).
> >> Sometimes I've fixed that retroactively, sometimes not. The advantage
> >> I see with empty commit messages is that it's more ubiquitous to
> >> "write something better" or "whatever". The downside is I can't git
> >> log --grep '^$' to find them.
> >
> > You can:
> >
> >     git log --invert-grep --grep '.'
> 
> Wow, that's nasty.
> 
> 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?

Thanks

Michal