> On Jan 30, 2019, at 05:12, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jeremy,
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2019, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu@apple.com>
> 
> As Eric pointed out, commits with such a vanishing commit message are
> very, very sad commits. And somewhere, a kitten dies every time you submit
> such a commit.

Yes.  I removed the commit message once upstream git finally fixed the issue and the commit message no longer applied.  I didn't add a new verbose message because I was under the impression the git community did not want to receive any contribuitions (bug reports, feedback, upstreamed patches) from Apple, and the radar provided all the reference I needed.  If that situation is changing (as it seems to possibly be), I'm happy to update this with details about the issue.  Here's the thread from 2011-2014 about the issue.