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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-commit --allow-empty
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:16:10 -0800
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> +--allow-empty::
>> +	Usually recording a commit that has the exact same tree as its
>> +	sole parent commit and the command prevents you from making such
>> +	a mistake.  This option bypasses the safety, and is primarily
>> +	for use by foreign scm interface scripts.
>
> The first sentence is rather buggy I would say.

It indeed is.  Sorry.