Since that git has supported the --always option for the git-format-patch command to create a patch with an empty commit message, git-am should support applying and committing with empty patches. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1: 1. add a case when not passing the --always option. 2. rename the --always option to --allow-empty. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v2: 1. rename the --allow-empty option to --empty-commit. 2. introduce three different strategies (die|skip|asis) when trying to record empty patches as empty commits. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v3: 1. generate the missed file for test cases. 2. grep -f cannot be used under Mac OS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v4: 1. rename the --empty-commit option to --empty. 2. rename three different strategies (die|skip|asis) to die, drop and keep correspondingly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v5: 1. throw an error when passing --empty option without value. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v6: 1. add i18n resources. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v7: 1. update code according to the seen branch. 2. fix the wrong document of git-am. 3. sign off commits by a real name. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v8: 1. update the committer's name with my real name to fix DCO of GGG. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v9: 1. imitate the signed name format of https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1143.git.git.1637347813367.gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx . cc: René Scharfe l.s.r@xxxxxx cc: Phillip Wood phillip.wood123@xxxxxxxxx cc: Aleen 徐沛文 pwxu@xxxxxxxxxxx cc: Aleen 徐沛文 pwxu@xxxxxxxxxxx 徐沛文 (Aleen) (2): doc: git-format-patch: describe the option --always am: support --empty=<option> to handle empty patches Documentation/git-am.txt | 8 +++++ Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 6 +++- builtin/am.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- t/t4150-am.sh | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) base-commit: f8b28837226f3932b867ca88a4f830bf203d2afe Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1076%2Faleen42%2Fnext-v11 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1076/aleen42/next-v11 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1076 Range-diff vs v10: 1: 59bce7131da ! 1: 3d7e96ce2b3 doc: git-format-patch: describe the option --always @@ ## Metadata ## -Author: Aleen <aleen42@xxxxxxxxxx> +Author: 徐沛文 (Aleen) <aleen42@xxxxxxxxxx> ## Commit message ## doc: git-format-patch: describe the option --always 2: 5025ad30ba7 ! 2: 6051ad9440a am: support --empty=<option> to handle empty patches @@ ## Metadata ## -Author: Aleen <aleen42@xxxxxxxxxx> +Author: 徐沛文 (Aleen) <aleen42@xxxxxxxxxx> ## Commit message ## am: support --empty=<option> to handle empty patches -- gitgitgadget