fprintf(fp,
"\n"
- "# Please enter the commit message for your changes.\n"
- "# To abort the commit, use an empty commit message.\n"
- "# (Comment lines starting with '#' will ");
+ "# Please enter the commit message for your changes.");
if (cleanup_mode == CLEANUP_ALL)
- fprintf(fp, "not be included)\n");
+ fprintf(fp,
+ " Lines starting\n"
+ "# with '#' will be ignored, and an empty"
+ " message aborts the commit.\n");
else /* CLEANUP_SPACE, that is. */
- fprintf(fp, "be kept.\n"
- "# You can remove them yourself if you want to)\n");
+ fprintf(fp,
+ " Lines starting\n"
+ "# with '#' will be kept; you may remove them"
+ " yourself if you want to.\n"
+ "# An empty message aborts the commit.\n");
if (only_include_assumed)
fprintf(fp, "# %s\n", only_include_assumed);
stripspace(&sb, cleanup_mode == CLEANUP_ALL);
if (sb.len < header_len || message_is_empty(&sb, header_len)) {
rollback_index_files();
- die("no commit message? aborting commit.");
+ fprintf(stderr, "Aborting commit due to empty commit message.\n");
+ exit(1);
}
strbuf_addch(&sb, '\0');
if (is_encoding_utf8(git_commit_encoding) && !is_utf8(sb.buf))