This bug should be closed, as it was fixed some time down the line, ie. Bazaar now does allow empty commit messages.
>bzr commit
Committing to: X
modified X.cpp
Commit message was not edited, use anyway? ([y]es, [n]o): no
bzr: ERROR: Empty commit message specified. Please specify a commit message with either --message or --file or leave a blank message with --message "".
>bzr commit -m ""
Committing to: X
modified X.cpp
Committed revision 2.
This bug should be closed, as it was fixed some time down the line, ie. Bazaar now does allow empty commit messages.
>bzr commit
Committing to: X
modified X.cpp
Commit message was not edited, use anyway? ([y]es, [n]o): no
bzr: ERROR: Empty commit message specified. Please specify a commit message with either --message or --file or leave a blank message with --message "".
>bzr commit -m ""
Committing to: X
modified X.cpp
Committed revision 2.
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