Subject: [PATCH] commit: don't start editor if empty message is given with -m

From: René Scharfe <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 23:43:34 +0200

If an empty message is specified with the option -m of git commit then
the editor is started.  That's unexpected and unnecessary.  Instead of
using the length of the message string for checking if the user
specified one, directly remember if the option -m was given.

Reported-by: Mislav Marohnić <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <[email-masked]>
---
 builtin/commit.c  | 10 ++++++----
 t/t7502-commit.sh | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index d2f30d9..1621dfc 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static const char *cleanup_arg;
 
 static enum commit_whence whence;
 static int use_editor = 1, include_status = 1;
-static int show_ignored_in_status;
+static int show_ignored_in_status, have_option_m;
 static const char *only_include_assumed;
 static struct strbuf message = STRBUF_INIT;
 
@@ -121,9 +121,11 @@ static enum {
 static int opt_parse_m(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset)
 {
 	struct strbuf *buf = opt->value;
-	if (unset)
+	if (unset) {
+		have_option_m = 0;
 		strbuf_setlen(buf, 0);
-	else {
+	} else {
+		have_option_m = 1;
 		if (buf->len)
 			strbuf_addch(buf, '\n');
 		strbuf_addstr(buf, arg);
@@ -975,7 +977,7 @@ static int parse_and_validate_options(int argc, const char *argv[],
 	if (force_author && renew_authorship)
 		die(_("Using both --reset-author and --author does not make sense"));
 
-	if (logfile || message.len || use_message || fixup_message)
+	if (logfile || have_option_m || use_message || fixup_message)
 		use_editor = 0;
 	if (0 <= edit_flag)
 		use_editor = edit_flag;
diff --git a/t/t7502-commit.sh b/t/t7502-commit.sh
index a4938b1..6313da2 100755
--- a/t/t7502-commit.sh
+++ b/t/t7502-commit.sh
@@ -361,6 +361,23 @@ test_expect_success !AUTOIDENT 'do not fire editor when committer is bogus' '
 	test_cmp expect .git/result
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'do not fire editor if -m <msg> was given' '
+	echo tick >file &&
+	git add file &&
+	echo "editor not started" >.git/result &&
+	(GIT_EDITOR="\"$(pwd)/.git/FAKE_EDITOR\"" git commit -m tick) &&
+	test "$(cat .git/result)" = "editor not started"
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'do not fire editor if -m "" was given' '
+	echo tock >file &&
+	git add file &&
+	echo "editor not started" >.git/result &&
+	(GIT_EDITOR="\"$(pwd)/.git/FAKE_EDITOR\"" \
+	 git commit -m "" --allow-empty-message) &&
+	test "$(cat .git/result)" = "editor not started"
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'do not fire editor in the presence of conflicts' '
 
 	git clean -f &&
-- 
1.8.3