Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes:
> Brandon Casey wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure we should apply this though. I'm leaning towards saying that
>> the 'cherry-pick -s' behavior with respect to a commit with an empty message
>> body should be undefined. If we want it to be undefined then we probably
>> shouldn't introduce a test which would have the effect of defining it.
>
> Maybe it would make sense to just check that cherry-pick doesn't
> segfault in this case?
;-)
>
> That is, compute the output but don't compare it to expected output, as
> in:
>
> test_expect_success 'adding signoff to empty message does something
> sane' '
> git reset --hard HEAD^ &&
> git cherry-pick --allow-empty-message -s empty-branch &&
> git show --pretty=format:%B -s empty-branch >actual &&
>
> # sign-off is included *somewhere*
> grep "^Signed-off-by:.*>\$" actual
> '
Isn't what the current code happens to do is the best we could do?
We would end up showing one entry whose title appears to be
"Signed-off-by: ..." in the shortlog output if we did so. If we
added an empty line, then the shortlog output will have a single
empty line that is equally unsightly.
We could force a message like this:
tree d7f87518a26e9f00714675706f165b94f3625177
parent f459a4b602c0f4d371e1717572de6d0c4d39c6b1
author Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> 1360699963 -0800
committer Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> 1360699980 -0800
!!cherry-picked from a commit without any message!!
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
but I do not think that buys us much; it only replaces a totally
uninformative empty line with another totally uninformative junk.
That ugliness is a price the insane person, who is cherry picking a
commit without any justification made by another insane person,
indicates that he is willing to pay by doing so. At that point I do
not think we should care.
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