On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 10:21 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I think that it is not by design that it doesn't fail. It's not > like we decided to allow s-o-b only merge because we found a reason > why it is a good idea to do so. > > So I do not think anybody minds too deeply if somebody came up a > patch to "fix" it. It's just that nobody tried to create such a > silly merge in real life so far (I do not think you did, either--you > found this out by playing around trying to find corner cases, no?) > Yes and no. I found this out while playing around with the "insert notes in the commit template" patch I sent previously. I wasn't trying to find corner cases, though. -- Kaartic