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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add option to git-commit to allow empty log messages
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 09:46:47 -0500
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Heya,

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 22:57, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:
>> You contradict yourself:
>
> I personally don't mind very much removing --allow-empty, though.

Ah, hmm. I vaguely remember some discussion in the past about empty
commits, but I'm not sure what the conclusion there was? I think it
was something like "if you want to create a marker, use tags instead,
there's really no reason to be using --allow-empty". Wasn't there some
use case for "--allow-emtpy" when creating an unrooted branch with an
empty starting point, or somesuch?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier