message</dt>
<dd>
<p>Like --allow-empty this command is primarily for use by foreign
SCM interface scripts. It allows you to create a commit with an
empty commit message without using plumbing commands like
<a href="git-commit-tree.html">git-commit-tree(1)</a>.</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">--cleanup=&lt;mode&gt;</dt>
<dd>
<p>This option determines how the supplied commit message should be
cleaned up before committing.  The <em>&lt;mode&gt;</em> can be <code>strip</code>,
<code>whitespace</code>, <code>verb