empty commit message
Michael Allman
msa at allman.ms
Wed Nov 28 06:55:45 GMT 2007
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Martin Pool wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2007 4:26 PM, Michael Allman <msa at allman.ms> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Can someone explain/point-me-to-discussion-of why "bzr commit" does not
>> permit empty commit messages? I cannot find anything on this anywhere.
>
> The intention is to give you a way to cancel the commit from inside
> the commit message editor. There's no technical reason why it can't
> be allowed, it's just an over-zealous attempt to protect the user.
>
> https://edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/172506
AFAIK, subversion and CVS cancel a commit from an edit dialog if and only
if the commit message template was not changed. At least that's the
behavior I remember.
Thanks.
Michael
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