empty commit message

Erik Bågfors zindar at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 07:00:58 GMT 2007


Svn  gives you a message saying something like "no commit message.  
Continue or abort" and the user can select.

/Erik

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On 2007 nov 28, at 07.55, Michael Allman <msa at allman.ms> wrote:

> 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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