Re: [PATCH 0/2] am: support --always option to am empty commits

René Scharfe [off-list ref] writes:

Am 12.11.21 um 05:58 schrieb Aleen via GitGitGadget:

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Since that git has supported the --always option for the git-format-patch
command to create a patch with empty commit message, git-am should support
applying and committing with empty patches.

The symmetry is compelling, but "always" is quite generic.  I can see
e.g. someone expecting "git am --always" to imply --keep-non-patch.

What symmetry?

git commit and cherry-pick have --allow-empty, which is (a bit) more
specific.  That seems to me a better option name to copy for a commit-
creating command like git am.

That one I can believe, even though I do not necessarily think it is
a good idea to add such an option.