Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Apr 08 2022, Erik Cervin Edin wrote: > >> At the risk of bikeshedding. >> >> The case in favor of not allowing empty commit messages by default is >> that most of the time, empty commit messages are useless. >> >> I've written my fair share of poor commit messages (-,..., wip, foo). >> Sometimes I've fixed that retroactively, sometimes not. The advantage >> I see with empty commit messages is that it's more ubiquitous to >> "write something better" or "whatever". The downside is I can't git >> log --grep '^$' to find them. > > You can: > > git log --invert-grep --grep '.' Wow, that's nasty. In any case, "--allow-empty-messages" exists, and that is where we draw the line. We will not bend over backwards beyond it. Thanks.
