You can try and create a commit with an empty summary field. It fails.
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GitHub Desktop version: 0.5.1
OS version: Windows 10
Repository
-> Open in Explorer
to get to the filesystemExpected behaviour: A warning that the commit summary is not valid
Actual behaviour: No error
Reproduces how often: 100%
Currently this fails with a somewhat meaningful error, so this feels more like a polish task
There's also some design work here that we'd need to consider given how the commit form is limited.
Moving this to help wanted
as this is something good for an external contributor, but much like #5240 there will probably be some discussion about what makes sense here.
I believe that this issue can be closed now that #5677 has been merged.
I likely should have used "Fixes #1485" for this case.
@Daniel-McCarthy good catch! thanks!