On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> For custom builds of Git it sometimes is inconvenient to annotate tags >> because there simply is nothing to say, so do not require an annotation. > > It's not that hard to add -m "" to the command line: It's not hard to type those characters, but (for me) it's hard to remember that I have to do it. > if you're just trying to avoid the editor or thinking up a message. Is `-m > ""` really that inconvenient? Yes, to me it's inconvenient, but not that much. And I think passing an empty annotation like you suggest is even worse than not setting an annotation at all, because I would assume if an annotation is set it's not empty, and if it is, I would expect this to be a user error. -- Sebastian Schuberth -- 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