On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 19:06 +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: > 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. > I was recently searching to find the patches have gone missing in to the void for no obvious reason and found this. Should I consider this to be "Dropped" in terms of the "What's cooking" emails or has this just not received the required attention? --- Kaartic