-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Junio C Hamano wrote: > You still say "the message is considered empty and" but I think it > probably reads better without it. Do you like the patch without those words? > Strictly speaking, it is not a "mandatory fillable form", but > whatever text you put in the template is advisory to the users. Ok, right on. I understand the template feature now since you've patiently explained it to me (thank you!). I still want to plainly convey that even if my template is the following: ~~~~ zip module: continue to expand transformer This WIP will eventually provide expanded transformer functionality. ~~~~ I *cannot* just save and quit my editor (unless I supply - --allow-empty-message). That's the behavior I find confusing: git telling me a non-empty commit message is an empty commit message. If I save that text above (zip module... etc) in FILE and do `git commit -t FILE`, save and quit my editor, git says "Aborting commit due to empty commit message." Lies! A more precise message would be "Aborting commit due to unmodified commit message template." Based on the current documentation I misunderstood that -t could be used to review a boilerplate commit message and save it verbatim. ...AHA! I just figured out a way to do exactly that: git commit --edit --file=FILE aka git commit -eF FILE Yay! No idea how I missed that before. Anyway, it still seems like the documentation for "git commit -t" could use improvement. I actually wouldn't mind seeing a short example template like the one you provided, maybe in the EXAMPLES or DISCUSSION section. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPdTw/AAoJEJtdmT+DbynAte4IALRx50yW5bEfzXskvSDewPuL SgaU4CqUHRm8sWXHeFbd4I2rG4dEJuqYqzKKbfay3EMwEbIkThiwoC2pJ9xJoFpe 8O95GVp3ikYvsY3mn87ebiwA9FBhnTy1Fz+MREfuzETpJbdtJSHhbRXMxfJ9ZabU FOPE/qeZDvQJA9b9QFY3QS/BcxsGHXhW9xCULZlAprDggMcchhHDEbqJCh/1wObw cQvoONiqZSkXA17K3gxfs7NgafUVFIg3+N9vcq90eZXbT/s1MM+1zxj5ezTh9jbV sOkzepfE5+NBK3PnewMDxDxhF0LD5lzHCwnfkTl1Om3okSE0nxVyRZKabuzc99s= =NUN8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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