It is quite complicated to support 'git commit --allow-empty' extracting messages from an empty patch, because 'git am' has to find somewhere to store the parsed state for 'git commit' to read. How about directly supporting another interactive option '--allow-empty' for 'git am' to keep recording? > Dears Hamano, > > Elijah Newren has given two better suggestions: > > 1. Use 'ask' rather than 'die' > 2. When erroring out 'Patch is empty', print out a tutorial information > to help users using 'git commit --allow-empty' to keep recording as > an empty commit. > > Should we continue to implement these features in current PR? > > Aleen
