On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? git-commit isn't really meant to be used by scripts. Try using git-commit-tree instead, which doesn't enforce a commit message. (Or use git fast-import; a quick glance at Snerp suggests that it's intended to be *fast*; using fast-import ought to make things vastly quicker.) Avery -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html