From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>
Cc: rsbecker@nexbridge.com, "Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>,
"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
jurgen_gjoncari@icloud.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Make commit messages optional
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 22:40:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YlZiQemrAuryF0vv@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPMMpohnwTTwTEjr9u29O_qVJtQNuG29G3Ta+-rXz-De8zvMCQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
Tao Klerks wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 5:18 PM <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> wrote:
>> And I still don't get why the --allow-empty-message is not
>> sufficient to meet your use case. git supports what is being
>> requested already, not that it is allowed where I am. Are we
>> talking about setting --allow-empty-message as the default? That is
>> a major behavioural change. You could create a git command alias to
>> always specify this option. So what is the point of this?
>>
>
> My proposal is that it absolutely is enough, functionally - but the
> abundance of "we should change something" concerns in this thread and
> elsewhere suggest, to me, that it might not be sufficiently
> discoverable; hence the "advice" proposal.
Thanks for this point. I find it to be a very reasonable one. I'd be
happy to review a patch adding an advice item when people use options
like '-m ""'.
Sincerely,
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-13 5:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-08 3:35 Make commit messages optional jurgen_gjoncari
2022-04-08 8:02 ` Christian Couder
2022-04-08 11:26 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-04-08 19:25 ` Erik Cervin Edin
2022-04-11 10:24 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-04-11 17:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-11 18:18 ` Michal Suchánek
2022-04-11 21:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-08 8:15 ` Philip Oakley
2022-04-08 14:32 ` Phillip Susi
2022-04-08 22:30 ` brian m. carlson
2022-04-08 23:32 ` rsbecker
2022-04-09 11:32 ` Michal Suchánek
2022-04-10 13:59 ` Tao Klerks
2022-04-10 15:00 ` rsbecker
2022-04-10 15:18 ` rsbecker
2022-04-10 16:27 ` Tao Klerks
2022-04-13 5:40 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2022-04-11 9:04 ` demerphq
2022-04-11 11:35 ` rsbecker
2022-04-11 10:19 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-04-11 12:39 ` Tao Klerks
2022-04-11 18:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-11 18:15 ` Michal Suchánek
2022-04-11 18:23 ` tytso
2022-04-11 20:10 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-04-14 14:46 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-04-14 16:43 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-04-14 17:25 ` Junio C Hamano
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