Merge branch 'ab/commit-empty-message'

* ab/commit-empty-message:
  Add option to git-commit to allow empty log messages

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index 3c14ade9dd..017b8a5536 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static char *edit_message, *use_message;
 static char *author_name, *author_email, *author_date;
 static int all, edit_flag, also, interactive, only, amend, signoff;
 static int quiet, verbose, no_verify, allow_empty, dry_run, renew_authorship;
-static int no_post_rewrite;
+static int no_post_rewrite, allow_empty_message;
 static char *untracked_files_arg, *force_date;
 /*
  * The default commit message cleanup mode will remove the lines
@@ -140,9 +140,15 @@ static struct option builtin_commit_options[] = {
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "amend", &amend, "amend previous commit"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "no-post-rewrite", &no_post_rewrite, "bypass post-rewrite hook"),
 	{ OPTION_STRING, 'u', "untracked-files", &untracked_files_arg, "mode", "show untracked files, optional modes: all, normal, no. (Default: all)", PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, NULL, (intptr_t)"all" },
-	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "allow-empty", &allow_empty, "ok to record an empty change"),
 	/* end commit contents options */
 
+	{ OPTION_BOOLEAN, 0, "allow-empty", &allow_empty, NULL,
+	  "ok to record an empty change",
+	  PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN },
+	{ OPTION_BOOLEAN, 0, "allow-empty-message", &allow_empty_message, NULL,
+	  "ok to record a change with an empty message",
+	  PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN },
+
 	OPT_END()
 };
 
@@ -1302,7 +1308,7 @@ int cmd_commit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	if (cleanup_mode != CLEANUP_NONE)
 		stripspace(&sb, cleanup_mode == CLEANUP_ALL);
-	if (message_is_empty(&sb)) {
+	if (message_is_empty(&sb) && !allow_empty_message) {
 		rollback_index_files();
 		fprintf(stderr, "Aborting commit due to empty commit message.\n");
 		exit(1);