Subject: Re: [PATCH v2/RFC] commit: change the meaning of an empty commit message

From: Kaartic Sivaraam <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 19:06:17 +0530

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.

-- 
Kaartic