From 277f8adbd6ebb6b3b00cf6d85e8bb2ec70131aa2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "https://id.koumbit.net/anarcat" <https://id.koumbit.net/anarcat@web>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:01:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH]

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 doc/todo/do_not_commit_with_empty_messages.mdwn | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 doc/todo/do_not_commit_with_empty_messages.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/todo/do_not_commit_with_empty_messages.mdwn b/doc/todo/do_not_commit_with_empty_messages.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d835bfd79b
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@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+it seems that `git-annex` sometimes does commits with empty commit messages. this makes rebasing git-annex branches much much harder than they need to, because rebase freaks out on those weird commits:
+
+<pre>
+anarcat@marcos:video$ git rebase --continue
+Waiting for Emacs...
+Aborting commit due to empty commit message.
+Could not commit staged changes.
+</pre>
+
+This was trying to fix [[a broken merge|forum/canceling_wrong_repository_merge/]]... --[[anarcat]]