Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > As a Porcelain, "git commit" has some leeway to enforce sensible policy on > the users, and "forbid commit that does not explain anything" is one such > policy. It is not generally a good idea to expose the full capabilities > of plumbing to Porcelain if it leads to bad user behaviour, and such > "artificial" limitations are safety features we do not want to remove. Isn't the requirement of using a longish option like "--allow-empty-message" enough of a warning to users though? Although it seems reasonable for git _discourage_ bad practices, I think that should generally also be moderated with "... but if you _reallllly_ want to, you can do this somewhat annoying thing....". Forcing someone to use commit-tree, though, seems a bit much to me; an annoyingly long option seems about right. -Miles -- Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. [Iris Murdoch] -- 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