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0ce5a698c6 Merge branch 'en/rebase-consistency'
"git rebase" behaved slightly differently depending on which one of
the three backends gets used; this has been documented and an
effort to make them more uniform has begun.

* en/rebase-consistency:
  git-rebase: make --allow-empty-message the default
  t3401: add directory rename testcases for rebase and am
  git-rebase.txt: document behavioral differences between modes
  directory-rename-detection.txt: technical docs on abilities and limitations
  git-rebase.txt: address confusion between --no-ff vs --force-rebase
  git-rebase: error out when incompatible options passed
  t3422: new testcases for checking when incompatible options passed
  git-rebase.sh: update help messages a bit
  git-rebase.txt: document incompatible options
2018-07-24 14:50:43 -07:00
392b3dde51 Merge branch 'sb/submodule-move-head-error-msg'
"git checkout --recurse-submodules another-branch" did not report
in which submodule it failed to update the working tree, which
resulted in an unhelpful error message.

* sb/submodule-move-head-error-msg:
  submodule.c: report the submodule that an error occurs in
2018-07-24 14:50:43 -07:00
a9e7fe96cc Merge branch 'rj/submodule-fsck-skip'
"fsck.skipList" did not prevent a blob object listed there from
being inspected for is contents (e.g. we recently started to
inspect the contents of ".gitmodules" for certain malicious
patterns), which has been corrected.

* rj/submodule-fsck-skip:
  fsck: check skiplist for object in fsck_blob()
2018-07-24 14:50:42 -07:00
b7bd9486b0 Third batch for 2.19 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-18 12:24:17 -07:00
5571d085b3 Merge branch 'js/enhanced-version-info'
Build fix.

* js/enhanced-version-info:
  Makefile: fix the "built from commit" code
2018-07-18 12:20:35 -07:00
bedb914551 Merge branch 'sb/mailmap'
* sb/mailmap:
  .mailmap: merge different spellings of names
2018-07-18 12:20:35 -07:00
18f2717578 Merge branch 'ms/core-icase-doc'
Clarify that setting core.ignoreCase to deviate from reality would
not turn a case-incapable filesystem into a case-capable one.

* ms/core-icase-doc:
  Documentation: declare "core.ignoreCase" as internal variable
2018-07-18 12:20:35 -07:00
06994ae065 Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph'
Docfix.

* ds/commit-graph:
  commit-graph: fix documentation inconsistencies
2018-07-18 12:20:34 -07:00
3c5b6ee92e Merge branch 'tz/exclude-doc-smallfixes'
Doc updates.

* tz/exclude-doc-smallfixes:
  dir.c: fix typos in core.excludesfile comment
  gitignore.txt: clarify default core.excludesfile path
2018-07-18 12:20:34 -07:00
2f826b060c Merge branch 'js/rebase-recreate-merge'
Docfix.

* js/rebase-recreate-merge:
  rebase: fix documentation formatting
2018-07-18 12:20:33 -07:00
b345b77b3a Merge branch 'en/rebase-i-microfixes'
* en/rebase-i-microfixes:
  git-rebase--merge: modernize "git-$cmd" to "git $cmd"
  Fix use of strategy options with interactive rebases
  t3418: add testcase showing problems with rebase -i and strategy options
2018-07-18 12:20:33 -07:00
676c7e50b1 Merge branch 'mb/filter-branch-optim'
"git filter-branch" when used with the "--state-branch" option
still attempted to rewrite the commits whose filtered result is
known from the previous attempt (which is recorded on the state
branch); the command has been corrected not to waste cycles doing
so.

* mb/filter-branch-optim:
  filter-branch: skip commits present on --state-branch
2018-07-18 12:20:32 -07:00
36b37afda6 Merge branch 'dj/runtime-prefix'
POSIX portability fix in Makefile to fix a glitch introduced a few
releases ago.

* dj/runtime-prefix:
  Makefile: tweak sed invocation
2018-07-18 12:20:32 -07:00
b9632c9d95 Merge branch 'ao/config-from-gitmodules'
Tighten the API to make it harder to misuse in-tree .gitmodules
file, even though it shares the same syntax with configuration
files, to read random configuration items from it.

* ao/config-from-gitmodules:
  submodule-config: reuse config_from_gitmodules in repo_read_gitmodules
  submodule-config: pass repository as argument to config_from_gitmodules
  submodule-config: make 'config_from_gitmodules' private
  submodule-config: add helper to get 'update-clone' config from .gitmodules
  submodule-config: add helper function to get 'fetch' config from .gitmodules
  config: move config_from_gitmodules to submodule-config.c
2018-07-18 12:20:31 -07:00
d18602f412 Merge branch 'jk/branch-l-0-deprecation'
The "-l" option in "git branch -l" is an unfortunate short-hand for
"--create-reflog", but many users, both old and new, somehow expect
it to be something else, perhaps "--list".  This step warns when "-l"
is used as a short-hand for "--create-reflog" and warns about the
future repurposing of the it when it is used.

* jk/branch-l-0-deprecation:
  branch: deprecate "-l" option
  t: switch "branch -l" to "branch --create-reflog"
  t3200: unset core.logallrefupdates when testing reflog creation
2018-07-18 12:20:31 -07:00
d036d667b7 Merge branch 'tb/grep-column'
"git grep" learned the "--column" option that gives not just the
line number but the column number of the hit.

* tb/grep-column:
  contrib/git-jump/git-jump: jump to exact location
  grep.c: add configuration variables to show matched option
  builtin/grep.c: add '--column' option to 'git-grep(1)'
  grep.c: display column number of first match
  grep.[ch]: extend grep_opt to allow showing matched column
  grep.c: expose {,inverted} match column in match_line()
  Documentation/config.txt: camel-case lineNumber for consistency
2018-07-18 12:20:31 -07:00
eb9056358c Merge branch 'vs/typofixes'
Doc fix.

* vs/typofixes:
  Documentation: spelling and grammar fixes
2018-07-18 12:20:31 -07:00
5e6140e76f Merge branch 'bw/protocol-v2'
Doc fix.

* bw/protocol-v2:
  protocol-v2 doc: put HTTP headers after request
2018-07-18 12:20:30 -07:00
ad7b8a7c5a Merge branch 'jt/remove-pack-bitmap-global'
The effort to move globals to per-repository in-core structure
continues.

* jt/remove-pack-bitmap-global:
  pack-bitmap: add free function
  pack-bitmap: remove bitmap_git global variable
2018-07-18 12:20:30 -07:00
a4d4427bc6 Merge branch 'bw/config-refer-to-gitsubmodules-doc'
Docfix.

* bw/config-refer-to-gitsubmodules-doc:
  docs: link to gitsubmodules
2018-07-18 12:20:30 -07:00
2516b4711f Merge branch 'xy/format-patch-prereq-patch-id-fix'
Recently added "--base" option to "git format-patch" command did
not correctly generate prereq patch ids.

* xy/format-patch-prereq-patch-id-fix:
  format-patch: clear UNINTERESTING flag before prepare_bases
2018-07-18 12:20:29 -07:00
d349e188ab Merge branch 'pw/rebase-i-keep-reword-after-conflict'
Bugfix for "rebase -i" corner case regression.

* pw/rebase-i-keep-reword-after-conflict:
  sequencer: do not squash 'reword' commits when we hit conflicts
2018-07-18 12:20:29 -07:00
6dcd36473a Merge branch 'ld/p423'
Code preparation to make "git p4" closer to be usable with Python 3.

* ld/p423:
  git-p4: python3: fix octal constants
  git-p4: python3: use print() function
  git-p4: python3: basestring workaround
  git-p4: python3: remove backticks
  git-p4: python3: replace dict.has_key(k) with "k in dict"
  git-p4: python3: replace <> with !=
2018-07-18 12:20:29 -07:00
5d459c0cec Merge branch 'ds/ewah-cleanup'
Remove unused function definitions and declarations from ewah
bitmap subsystem.

* ds/ewah-cleanup:
  ewah: delete unused 'rlwit_discharge_empty()'
  ewah: drop ewah_serialize_native function
  ewah: drop ewah_deserialize function
  ewah_io: delete unused 'ewah_serialize()'
  ewah_bitmap: delete unused 'ewah_or()'
  ewah_bitmap: delete unused 'ewah_not()'
  ewah_bitmap: delete unused 'ewah_and_not()'
  ewah_bitmap: delete unused 'ewah_and()'
  ewah/bitmap.c: delete unused 'bitmap_each_bit()'
  ewah/bitmap.c: delete unused 'bitmap_clear()'
2018-07-18 12:20:28 -07:00
7e25437d35 Merge branch 'sb/submodule-core-worktree'
"git submodule" did not correctly adjust core.worktree setting that
indicates whether/where a submodule repository has its associated
working tree across various state transitions, which has been
corrected.

* sb/submodule-core-worktree:
  submodule deinit: unset core.worktree
  submodule: ensure core.worktree is set after update
  submodule: unset core.worktree if no working tree is present
2018-07-18 12:20:28 -07:00
00624d608c Merge branch 'sb/object-store-grafts'
The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then "a_repository"
throughout the object access API continues.

* sb/object-store-grafts:
  commit: allow lookup_commit_graft to handle arbitrary repositories
  commit: allow prepare_commit_graft to handle arbitrary repositories
  shallow: migrate shallow information into the object parser
  path.c: migrate global git_path_* to take a repository argument
  cache: convert get_graft_file to handle arbitrary repositories
  commit: convert read_graft_file to handle arbitrary repositories
  commit: convert register_commit_graft to handle arbitrary repositories
  commit: convert commit_graft_pos() to handle arbitrary repositories
  shallow: add repository argument to is_repository_shallow
  shallow: add repository argument to check_shallow_file_for_update
  shallow: add repository argument to register_shallow
  shallow: add repository argument to set_alternate_shallow_file
  commit: add repository argument to lookup_commit_graft
  commit: add repository argument to prepare_commit_graft
  commit: add repository argument to read_graft_file
  commit: add repository argument to register_commit_graft
  commit: add repository argument to commit_graft_pos
  object: move grafts to object parser
  object-store: move object access functions to object-store.h
2018-07-18 12:20:28 -07:00
473b8bb3aa Merge branch 'en/merge-recursive-cleanup'
Code cleanup.

* en/merge-recursive-cleanup:
  merge-recursive: add pointer about unduly complex looking code
  merge-recursive: rename conflict_rename_*() family of functions
  merge-recursive: clarify the rename_dir/RENAME_DIR meaning
  merge-recursive: align labels with their respective code blocks
  merge-recursive: fix numerous argument alignment issues
  merge-recursive: fix miscellaneous grammar error in comment
2018-07-18 12:20:27 -07:00
fb16287719 fsck: check skiplist for object in fsck_blob()
Since commit ed8b10f631 ("fsck: check .gitmodules content", 2018-05-02),
fsck will issue an error message for '.gitmodules' content that cannot
be parsed correctly. This is the case, even when the corresponding blob
object has been included on the skiplist. For example, using the cgit
repository, we see the following:

  $ git fsck
  Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
  error: bad config line 5 in blob .gitmodules
  error in blob 51dd1eff1edc663674df9ab85d2786a40f7ae3a5: gitmodulesParse: could not parse gitmodules blob
  Checking objects: 100% (6626/6626), done.
  $

  $ git config fsck.skiplist '.git/skip'
  $ echo 51dd1eff1edc663674df9ab85d2786a40f7ae3a5 >.git/skip
  $

  $ git fsck
  Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
  error: bad config line 5 in blob .gitmodules
  Checking objects: 100% (6626/6626), done.
  $

Note that the error message issued by the config parser is still
present, despite adding the object-id of the blob to the skiplist.

One solution would be to provide a means of suppressing the messages
issued by the config parser. However, given that (logically) we are
asking fsck to ignore this object, a simpler approach is to just not
call the config parser if the object is to be skipped. Add a check to
the 'fsck_blob()' processing function, to determine if the object is
on the skiplist and, if so, exit the function early.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-03 09:49:44 -07:00
88a8ecaeaa .mailmap: merge different spellings of names
This is a continuation of 94b410bba8 (.mailmap: Map email
addresses to names, 2013-07-12), merging names that are
spelled differently but have the same author email to the
same person.

Most spellings differed in accents or the order of names.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-29 09:29:44 -07:00
5cf8e06474 Makefile: fix the "built from commit" code
In ed32b788c0 (version --build-options: report commit, too, if
possible, 2017-12-15), we introduced code to let `git version
--build-options` report the current commit from which the binaries were
built, if any.

To prevent erroneous commits from being reported (e.g. when unpacking
Git's source code from a .tar.gz file into a subdirectory of a different
Git project, as e.g. git_osx_installer does), we painstakingly set
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES when trying to determine the current commit.

Except that we got the quoting wrong, and that variable therefore does
not have the desired effect.

The issue is that the $(shell) is resolved before the output is stuffed
into the command-line with -DGIT_BUILT_FROM_COMMIT, and therefore is
*not* inside quotes. And thus backslashing the quotes is wrong, as the
quote gets literally inserted into the CEILING_DIRECTORIES variable.

Let's fix that quoting, and while at it, also suppress the unhelpful
message

fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

that gets printed to stderr if no current commit could be determined,
and might scare the occasional developer who simply tries to build Git
from scratch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-29 09:04:10 -07:00
e3331758f1 Second batch for 2.19 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-28 12:55:47 -07:00
085d2abf57 Merge branch 'sb/fix-fetching-moved-submodules'
The code to try seeing if a fetch is necessary in a submodule
during a fetch with --recurse-submodules got confused when the path
to the submodule was changed in the range of commits in the
superproject, sometimes showing "(null)".  This has been corrected.

* sb/fix-fetching-moved-submodules:
  t5526: test recursive submodules when fetching moved submodules
  submodule: fix NULL correctness in renamed broken submodules
2018-06-28 12:53:34 -07:00
cf22247b63 Merge branch 'tz/cred-netrc-cleanup'
Build and test procedure for netrc credential helper (in contrib/)
has been updated.

* tz/cred-netrc-cleanup:
  git-credential-netrc: make "all" default target of Makefile
  git-credential-netrc: fix exit status when tests fail
  git-credential-netrc: use in-tree Git.pm for tests
  git-credential-netrc: minor whitespace cleanup in test script
2018-06-28 12:53:33 -07:00
18404434bf Merge branch 'jc/clean-after-sanity-tests'
test cleanup.

* jc/clean-after-sanity-tests:
  tests: clean after SANITY tests
2018-06-28 12:53:33 -07:00
6da2d95951 Merge branch 'nd/completion-negation'
Continuing with the idea to programmatically enumerate various
pieces of data required for command line completion, the codebase
has been taught to enumerate options prefixed with "--no-" to
negate them.

* nd/completion-negation:
  completion: collapse extra --no-.. options
  completion: suppress some -no- options
  parse-options: option to let --git-completion-helper show negative form
2018-06-28 12:53:32 -07:00
5eb8da8508 Merge branch 'pw/add-p-recount'
When user edits the patch in "git add -p" and the user's editor is
set to strip trailing whitespaces indiscriminately, an empty line
that is unchanged in the patch would become completely empty
(instead of a line with a sole SP on it).  The code introduced in
Git 2.17 timeframe failed to parse such a patch, but now it learned
to notice the situation and cope with it.

* pw/add-p-recount:
  add -p: fix counting empty context lines in edited patches
2018-06-28 12:53:32 -07:00
0079732e96 Merge branch 'jk/fetch-all-peeled-fix'
"git fetch-pack --all" used to unnecessarily fail upon seeing an
annotated tag that points at an object other than a commit.

* jk/fetch-all-peeled-fix:
  fetch-pack: test explicitly that --all can fetch tag references pointing to non-commits
  fetch-pack: don't try to fetch peel values with --all
2018-06-28 12:53:32 -07:00
8d3661d5b1 Merge branch 'ms/send-pack-honor-config'
"git send-pack --signed" (hence "git push --signed" over the http
transport) did not read user ident from the config mechanism to
determine whom to sign the push certificate as, which has been
corrected.

* ms/send-pack-honor-config:
  builtin/send-pack: populate the default configs
2018-06-28 12:53:30 -07:00
92e1bbc334 Merge branch 'jh/partial-clone'
The recent addition of "partial clone" experimental feature kicked
in when it shouldn't, namely, when there is no partial-clone filter
defined even if extensions.partialclone is set.

* jh/partial-clone:
  list-objects: check if filter is NULL before using
2018-06-28 12:53:30 -07:00
078f3dc0ce Merge branch 'sg/gpg-tests-fix'
Some flaky tests have been fixed.

* sg/gpg-tests-fix:
  tests: make forging GPG signed commits and tags more robust
  t7510-signed-commit: use 'test_must_fail'
2018-06-28 12:53:30 -07:00
8063ff9cf5 Merge branch 'as/safecrlf-quiet-fix'
Fix for 2.17-era regression around `core.safecrlf`.

* as/safecrlf-quiet-fix:
  config.c: fix regression for core.safecrlf false
2018-06-28 12:53:29 -07:00
a909726903 Merge branch 'ab/refspec-init-fix'
Make refspec parsing codepath more robust.

* ab/refspec-init-fix:
  refspec: initalize `refspec_item` in `valid_fetch_refspec()`
  refspec: add back a refspec_item_init() function
  refspec: s/refspec_item_init/&_or_die/g
2018-06-28 12:53:29 -07:00
48294b512a Documentation: declare "core.ignoreCase" as internal variable
The current description of "core.ignoreCase" reads like an option which
is intended to be changed by the user while it's actually expected to
be set by Git on initialization only. Subsequently, Git relies on the
proper configuration of this variable, as noted by Bryan Turner [1]:

    Git on a case-insensitive filesystem (APFS, HFS+, FAT32, exFAT,
    vFAT, NTFS, etc.) is not designed to be run with anything other
    than core.ignoreCase=true.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=git&m=152998665813997&w=2
    mid:CAGyf7-GeE8jRGPkME9rHKPtHEQ6P1+ebpMMWAtMh01uO3bfy8w@mail.gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Marc Strapetz <marc.strapetz@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-28 09:46:47 -07:00
a9aa3c0927 commit-graph: fix documentation inconsistencies
The commit-graph feature shipped in Git 2.18 has some inconsistencies in
the constants used by the implementation and specified by the format
document.

The commit data chunk uses the key "CDAT" in the file format, but was
previously documented to say "CGET".

The commit data chunk stores commit parents using two 32-bit fields that
typically store the integer position of the parent in the list of commit
ids within the commit-graph file. When a parent does not exist, we had
documented the value 0xffffffff, but implemented the value 0x70000000.
This swap is easy to correct in the documentation, but unfortunately
reduces the number of commits that we can store in the commit-graph.
Update that estimate, too.

Reported-by: Grant Welch <gwelch925@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-28 09:45:03 -07:00
d7f590be84 git-rebase--merge: modernize "git-$cmd" to "git $cmd"
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-27 12:25:17 -07:00
0060041df1 Fix use of strategy options with interactive rebases
git-rebase.sh wrote strategy options to .git/rebase/merge/strategy_opts
in the following format:
  '--ours'  '--renormalize'
Note the double spaces.

git-rebase--interactive uses sequencer.c to parse that file, and
sequencer.c used split_cmdline() to get the individual strategy options.
After splitting, sequencer.c prefixed each "option" with a double dash,
so, concatenating all its options would result in:
  -- --ours -- --renormalize

So, when it ended up calling try_merge_strategy(), that in turn would run
  git merge-$strategy -- --ours -- --renormalize $merge_base -- $head $remote

instead of the expected/desired
  git merge-$strategy --ours --renormalize $merge_base -- $head $remote

Remove the extra spaces so that when it goes through split_cmdline() we end
up with the desired command line.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-27 12:25:12 -07:00
a5a959d9a8 t3418: add testcase showing problems with rebase -i and strategy options
We are not passing the same args to merge strategies when we are doing an
--interactive rebase as we do with a --merge rebase.  The merge strategy
should not need to be aware of which type of rebase is in effect.  Add a
testcase which checks for the appropriate args.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-27 12:25:11 -07:00
51d1863168 dir.c: fix typos in core.excludesfile comment
Make it easier to find references to core.excludesfile and the default
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore path.

Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-27 12:17:17 -07:00
45e851cb44 gitignore.txt: clarify default core.excludesfile path
The default core.excludesfile path is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore.
$HOME/.config/git/ignore is used if XDG_CONFIG_HOME is empty or unset,
as described later in the document.

Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-27 12:17:16 -07:00
b00bf1c9a8 git-rebase: make --allow-empty-message the default
rebase backends currently behave differently with empty commit messages,
largely as a side-effect of the different underlying commands on which
they are based.  am-based rebases apply commits with an empty commit
message without stopping or requiring the user to specify an extra flag.
(It is interesting to note that am-based rebases are the default rebase
type, and no one has ever requested a --no-allow-empty-message flag to
change this behavior.)  merge-based and interactive-based rebases (which
are ultimately based on git-commit), will currently halt on any such
commits and require the user to manually specify what to do with the
commit and continue.

One possible rationale for the difference in behavior is that the purpose
of an "am" based rebase is solely to transplant an existing history, while
an "interactive" rebase is one whose purpose is to polish a series before
making it publishable.  Thus, stopping and asking for confirmation for a
possible problem is more appropriate in the latter case.  However, there
are two problems with this rationale:

  1) merge-based rebases are also non-interactive and there are multiple
     types of rebases that use the interactive machinery but are not
     explicitly interactive (e.g. when either --rebase-merges or
     --keep-empty are specified without --interactive).  These rebases are
     also used solely to transplant an existing history, and thus also
     should default to --allow-empty-message.

  2) this rationale only says that the user is more accepting of stopping
     in the case of an explicitly interactive rebase, not that stopping
     for this particular reason actually makes sense.  Exploring whether
     it makes sense, requires backing up and analyzing the underlying
     commands...

If git-commit did not error out on empty commits by default, accidental
creation of commits with empty messages would be a very common occurrence
(this check has caught me many times).  Further, nearly all such empty
commit messages would be considered an accidental error (as evidenced by a
huge amount of documentation across version control systems and in various
blog posts explaining how important commit messages are).  A simple check
for what would otherwise be a common error thus made a lot of sense, and
git-commit gained an --allow-empty-message flag for special case
overrides.  This has made commits with empty messages very rare.

There are two sources for commits with empty messages for rebase (and
cherry-pick): (a) commits created in git where the user previously
specified --allow-empty-message to git-commit, and (b) commits imported
into git from other version control systems.  In case (a), the user has
already explicitly specified that there is something special about this
commit that makes them not want to specify a commit message; forcing them
to re-specify with every cherry-pick or rebase seems more likely to be
infuriating than helpful.  In case (b), the commit is highly unlikely to
have been authored by the person who has imported the history and is doing
the rebase or cherry-pick, and thus the user is unlikely to be the
appropriate person to write a commit message for it.  Stopping and
expecting the user to modify the commit before proceeding thus seems
counter-productive.

Further, note that while empty commit messages was a common error case for
git-commit to deal with, it is a rare case for rebase (or cherry-pick).
The fact that it is rare raises the question of why it would be worth
checking and stopping on this particular condition and not others.  For
example, why doesn't an interactive rebase automatically stop if the
commit message's first line is 2000 columns long, or is missing a blank
line after the first line, or has every line indented with five spaces, or
any number of other myriad problems?

Finally, note that if a user doing an interactive rebase does have the
necessary knowledge to add a message for any such commit and wants to do
so, it is rather simple for them to change the appropriate line from
'pick' to 'reword'.  The fact that the subject is empty in the todo list
that the user edits should even serve as a way to notify them.

As far as I can tell, the fact that merge-based and interactive-based
rebases stop on commits with empty commit messages is solely a by-product
of having been based on git-commit.  It went without notice for a long
time precisely because such cases are rare.  The rareness of this
situation made it difficult to reason about, so when folks did eventually
notice this behavior, they assumed it was there for a good reason and just
added an --allow-empty-message flag.  In my opinion, stopping on such
messages not desirable in any of these cases, even the (explicitly)
interactive case.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-27 11:23:22 -07:00