rebase: add --allow-empty-message option

This option allows commits with empty commit messages to be rebased,
matching the same option in git-commit and git-cherry-pick. While empty
log messages are frowned upon, sometimes one finds them in older
repositories (e.g. translated from another VCS [0]), or have other
reasons for desiring them. The option is available in git-commit and
git-cherry-pick, so it is natural to make other git tools play nicely
with them. Adding this as an option allows the default to be "give the
user a chance to fix", while not interrupting the user's workflow
otherwise [1].

  [0]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/8542304
  [1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/7vd33afqjh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org/

To implement this, add a new --allow-empty-message flag. Then propagate
it to all calls of 'git commit', 'git cherry-pick', and 'git rebase--helper'
within the rebase scripts.

Signed-off-by: Genki Sky <sky@genki.is>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Genki Sky
2018-02-04 15:08:13 -05:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 5be1f00a9a
commit a6c612b528
7 changed files with 53 additions and 11 deletions

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@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ continue_merge () {
cmt=$(cat "$state_dir/current")
if ! git diff-index --quiet --ignore-submodules HEAD --
then
if ! git commit ${gpg_sign_opt:+"$gpg_sign_opt"} --no-verify -C "$cmt"
if ! git commit ${gpg_sign_opt:+"$gpg_sign_opt"} $allow_empty_message \
--no-verify -C "$cmt"
then
echo "Commit failed, please do not call \"git commit\""
echo "directly, but instead do one of the following: "