From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: format-patch on permission change gives empty patch
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:40:08 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101006.174008.70175671.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101006.173714.245380201.davem@davemloft.net>
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:37:14 -0700 (PDT)
>
> When I ask git to format-patch a commit that is just a file
> permission change, it ends up generating an empty file, not
> even the commit message is included.
Ok it turns out that the commit in question was a NOP since the file
permissions didn't change.
But even if the patch is truly empty, format-patch should still give
me the commit message shouldn't it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-07 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-07 0:37 format-patch on permission change gives empty patch David Miller
2010-10-07 0:40 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-10-07 4:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-07 4:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-07 8:15 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-07 10:05 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-07 10:12 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-07 19:06 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-07 20:29 ` Junio C Hamano
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