Christian Brabandt <cb@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Do, 13 Jul 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> I think many people know about and do use the "delete all lines" >> (i.e. ":1,$d" in vi, or \M-< \C-SPC \M-> \C-w in Emacs) to abort out >> of a commit or a merge. I just do not think it is likely for them >> to leave Sign-off lines and remove everything else, which is more >> work than to delete everything, hence my reaction. > > In Vim you can also abort the commit message using :cq which exits the > editor with an error code. Sure, but it's not like we are trying to come up with an education material to teach people how to abort their commit in progress in this discussion, so I do not quite see a relevance of your comment to the topic at hand here.
