From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Does Git really need a commit message to go with a commit?
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 22:06:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <z2r51dd1af81004031506pc9ac1840ie9953ae6df91d01b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
git-commit(1) doesn't allow you to make a commit without a commit
message. This is annoying and doesn't properly preserve history in
applications like snerp-vortex which replay a SVN dump into Git. You
have to add `$msg = "Git made me do it" unless length $msg' somewhere.
Is there really no way to add a commit with no message with the git
tools? Will anything break if I manually construct a commit with no
message? Are commit messages inherently part of the format or does
git-commit(1) just think it knows better than me?
next reply other threads:[~2010-04-03 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-03 22:06 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2010-04-04 1:58 ` Does Git really need a commit message to go with a commit? Avery Pennarun
[not found] ` <p2kadf1fd3d1004031526r3beff4e3ldd977dfc7e9da782@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <h2m51dd1af81004040415xc7381f6cp1bf81bcfd684b99d@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-04 12:37 ` Santi Béjar
2010-04-04 14:49 ` [PATCH] Add option to git-commit to allow empty log messages Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-04-04 22:43 ` David Aguilar
2010-04-04 23:53 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-04-05 2:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-05 2:15 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-05 3:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-05 14:46 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-05 5:10 ` Miles Bader
2010-04-05 5:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-05 5:51 ` Jeff King
2010-04-05 12:50 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-04-05 17:58 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-05 18:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-06 5:55 ` Jeff King
2010-04-06 8:40 ` [PATCH v2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-04-07 5:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-07 14:28 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-04-06 8:42 ` [PATCH] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-04-07 15:09 ` [PATCH] Remove --allow-empty from the git-commit synopsis Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-04-07 15:29 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-07 17:28 ` [PATCH v2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-04-07 17:52 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-07 18:17 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-04-07 18:21 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-04-07 18:48 ` [PATCH v3] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-04-07 18:55 ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Sixt
2010-04-07 19:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v4] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-04-07 19:45 ` Stephen Boyd
2010-04-07 22:25 ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano
2010-04-08 6:44 ` Jeff King
2010-04-06 5:43 ` [PATCH] Add option to git-commit to allow empty log messages Jeff King
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