Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 07:59:49AM +0100, Andreas Krey wrote: > >> > OK. I'm not sure why you would want to create an empty commit in such a >> > case. >> >> User: Ok tool, make me a pullreq. >> >> Tool: But you haven't mentioned any issue >> in your commit messages. Which are they? >> >> User: Ok, that would be A-123. >> >> Tool: git commit --allow-empty -m 'FIX: A-123' > > OK. I think "tool" is slightly funny here, but I get that is part of the > real world works. Thanks for illustrating. I am not sure if I understand. Why isn't the FIX: thing added to the commit being pulled by amending it? Would the convention be for the responder of a pull-request to fetch and drop the tip commit?