Since that git has supported the --always option for the git-format-patch command to create a patch with empty commit message, git-am should support applying and committing with empty patches. Aleen (2): doc: git-format-patch: specify the option --always am: support --always option to am empty commits Documentation/git-am.txt | 5 +++++ Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 5 +++++ builtin/am.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- t/t4150-am.sh | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) base-commit: b550198c73edd4cc058832dcf74b41aeec2adba2 Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1076%2Faleen42%2Fnext-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1076/aleen42/next-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1076 -- gitgitgadget