From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit & merge: modularize the empty message validator
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 10:16:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq379vhtkk.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170717090838.GA17826@256bit.org> (Christian Brabandt's message of "Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:08:38 +0200")
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org> writes:
> On Do, 13 Jul 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I think many people know about and do use the "delete all lines"
>> (i.e. ":1,$d" in vi, or \M-< \C-SPC \M-> \C-w in Emacs) to abort out
>> of a commit or a merge. I just do not think it is likely for them
>> to leave Sign-off lines and remove everything else, which is more
>> work than to delete everything, hence my reaction.
>
> In Vim you can also abort the commit message using :cq which exits the
> editor with an error code.
Sure, but it's not like we are trying to come up with an education
material to teach people how to abort their commit in progress in
this discussion, so I do not quite see a relevance of your comment
to the topic at hand here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-17 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-02 12:03 Why doesn't merge fail if message has only sign-off? Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-03 17:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-04 20:03 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-06 3:31 ` [PATCH] merge-message: change meaning of "empty merge message" Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-06 4:46 ` Kevin Daudt
2017-07-06 12:20 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-11 14:12 ` [PATCH] commit & merge: modularize the empty message validator Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-11 14:41 ` [PATCH/RFC] " Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-11 20:22 ` [PATCH] " Junio C Hamano
2017-07-13 13:00 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-13 17:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-14 13:31 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-17 9:08 ` Christian Brabandt
2017-07-17 17:16 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-07-13 18:15 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-13 19:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-14 17:49 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-15 8:33 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-08-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v2] branch: change the error messages to be more meaningful Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-08-21 13:52 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-08-21 14:05 ` [PATCH v2/RFC] commit: change the meaning of an empty commit message Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-08-24 20:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-31 13:36 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-10-02 17:20 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
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