The check for whether the template given to 'git commit' is untouched is done before the empty message check. This results in a wrong error message being displayed in the following case. When the user removes everything in template completely to abort the commit he is shown the "template untouched" error which is wrong. He should be shown the "empty message" error. Do the empty message check before checking for an untouched template thus fixing this issue. Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/commit.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c index aff6bf7aa..9c299d792 100644 --- a/builtin/commit.c +++ b/builtin/commit.c @@ -1736,19 +1736,19 @@ int cmd_commit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) if (verbose || /* Truncate the message just before the diff, if any. */ cleanup_mode == CLEANUP_SCISSORS) strbuf_setlen(&sb, wt_status_locate_end(sb.buf, sb.len)); - if (cleanup_mode != CLEANUP_NONE) strbuf_stripspace(&sb, cleanup_mode == CLEANUP_ALL); - if (template_untouched(&sb) && !allow_empty_message) { - rollback_index_files(); - fprintf(stderr, _("Aborting commit; you did not edit the message.\n")); - exit(1); - } + if (message_is_empty(&sb) && !allow_empty_message) { rollback_index_files(); fprintf(stderr, _("Aborting commit due to empty commit message.\n")); exit(1); } + if (template_untouched(&sb) && !allow_empty_message) { + rollback_index_files(); + fprintf(stderr, _("Aborting commit; you did not edit the message.\n")); + exit(1); + } if (amend) { const char *exclude_gpgsig[2] = { "gpgsig", NULL }; -- 2.13.3.973.gaaf39e6bd.dirty