Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91...@gmail.com> writes: > Sometimes I abort an commit from from the editor by providing an empty > commit message. Then I came to know that 'git commit' considers commit > messages with just signed-off-by lines as an empty message. I tried to > take advantage of that. I once tried to abort a merge by just removing > the "Merge ..." line and leaving the "Signed-off" line and was > surprised to see the merge happen instead of an abort. The rest is > history. :)
I think many people know about and do use the "delete all lines" (i.e. ":1,$d" in vi, or \M-< \C-SPC \M-> \C-w in Emacs) to abort out of a commit or a merge. I just do not think it is likely for them to leave Sign-off lines and remove everything else, which is more work than to delete everything, hence my reaction.
