From: <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'Andreas Schwab'" <schwab@linux-m68k.org>, <email@mateuszwielgos.com>
Cc: '韩仰' <hanyang.tony@bytedance.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [External] Using Git as a Database
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:09:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00d001db0dec$1c8fa320$55aee960$@nexbridge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r09aus7v.fsf@igel.home>
On September 23, 2024 2:43 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>On Sep 23 2024, email@mateuszwielgos.com wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your reply, Han. The problem that I have with ‘—allow-empty’ is
>that the resulting commit is not associated with any particular file. I tried ‘git commit
>—allow-empty myfile.txt’ but the file argument is effectively ignored. ‘git log
>myfile.txt’ does not show the empty commit.
>
>Since the git model is snapshot based, there is no way around that, apart from
>putting the reference in the commit message which you can search with git log --
>grep=myfile.txt.
One way around this is to inject a date/timestamp in the file. Be careful about conflicts
If you every try to merge. This forces a signature change in the internal blob on
commit.
I am not recommending this, just suggesting a way to force the issue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-23 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-23 3:28 Using Git as a Database Mateusz Wielgos
2024-09-23 3:48 ` [External] " 韩仰
2024-09-23 12:32 ` email
2024-09-23 18:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2024-09-23 19:09 ` rsbecker [this message]
2024-09-25 16:47 ` Sergey Organov
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