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From: Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: erratic behavior commit --allow-empty
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 15:08:21 +0200
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Hi Thomas,

> The documentation only states that it will skip the 'same tree as parent'
> check, not that it will *always* create a new commit.

Ok, understood: you believe that the documentation is clear, and I
that it is somehow not.
I would prefer to have it more plain.

But that is not all the story. The behavior of the command remains
time-dependent,
so that a user cannot reliably predict its result. I think that this
is an ill-specified option.
I would not insist in removing it (although that would be the correct
solution), but at
least to warn the user about this possibly unexpected behavior.

-Angelo