On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 13:19 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > The latter is easier for me as we do not have to worry about > breaking people's scripts and tools used in > their established workflows at all. > In that case, how about doing something similar to what was done to 'set-upstream' option of branch? We could print a warning notice when the commit message is found to be empty due to the presence of a sign- off line. As usual we could stop warning and stop identifying log messages consisting only signed-off lines as empty after a few years of doing that. Note: I have no idea how good an idea this is. Let me know if it's a bad one. -- Kaartic