Commit a24a41e (git-commit: only append a newline to -m mesg if necessary, 2013-02-18) introduced a regression: when --allow-empty-message is used and an empty message is explicitly specified with -m "", git commit still launches $EDITOR unnecessarily. The commit (correctly) fixes opt_parse_m() to not fill in two newlines into the message buffer unconditionally. The real problem is that launching $EDITOR only depends on use_editor and whether message is empty. Fix the problem by setting explicit_message in the codepath where an explicit string is passed via -m, and then checking it before launching $EDITOR. Reported-by: Mislav Marohnić <mislav.marohnic@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> --- Works? builtin/commit.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c index d2f30d9..7d72ba7 100644 --- a/builtin/commit.c +++ b/builtin/commit.c @@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ static const char *cleanup_arg; static enum commit_whence whence; static int use_editor = 1, include_status = 1; static int show_ignored_in_status; +static int explicit_message = 0; static const char *only_include_assumed; static struct strbuf message = STRBUF_INIT; @@ -128,6 +129,7 @@ static int opt_parse_m(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset) strbuf_addch(buf, '\n'); strbuf_addstr(buf, arg); strbuf_complete_line(buf); + explicit_message = 1; } return 0; } @@ -824,7 +826,7 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix, git_path(commit_editmsg), hook_arg1, hook_arg2, NULL)) return 0; - if (use_editor) { + if (use_editor && !explicit_message) { char index[PATH_MAX]; const char *env[2] = { NULL }; env[0] = index; -- 1.8.3.1.g33669de.dirty -- 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