From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: git 1.5.1-rc1 doesn't like empty files Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:26:00 +0000 Message-ID: <200703200926.05176.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <1174361424.3143.42.camel@dv> <200703200843.51473.andyparkins@gmail.com> <7vbqio7100.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Linus Torvalds , Pavel Roskin , Alexander Litvinov To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 20 10:26:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HTabi-0004qS-IN for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:26:18 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933277AbXCTJ0N (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:26:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933410AbXCTJ0M (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:26:12 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]:4527 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933277AbXCTJ0L (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:26:11 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o25so268562nfa for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:26:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=oeex1z5kxtSqW1fHRgK/g4WWT1LPrn4JSZf5zTE21ZTq3YXp2c1KmJPtkku+kWzQ/AiDBkO8Cgh8fR13WA2Bosx18FFCJdjhyrZSz3ZxzeQYX4VOB/e82AVaFmy6i5Qr1erAHsU6v+4xZFNsJ51aXE5bTH2MfI+Y/Xmbp4BhEO0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=cRICpplq9GyHyDZz2IimPSEDnXbfaYpNrylGFyeylz1h18qV4yEEjMQ5dB6zVvLbgeCXkqidz2rUjei8WKrpnsyg/DmLSPSbGmLpx2rXJNHGtY5gA/m8q0Tt6yya8UIFwTgGZi3bzkxExBWdSX1SingM2U7S1y+ykBk6QzLnfGU= Received: by 10.78.171.13 with SMTP id t13mr2935208hue.1174382769068; Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:26:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dvr.360vision.com ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id c28sm1273899nfb.2007.03.20.02.26.07; Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:26:08 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: <7vbqio7100.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tuesday 2007 March 20 08:49, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> noticed, because almost nobody uses it. > > > > I'm not sure that's going to be true for long - the 1.5.0 release notes > > recommended setting it (assuming you didn't need backward compatibility) > > - which is exactly what I (and I'm sure others) did. > > Well, it is fixed in 'master' to be in -rc2, and that validation > does not exist in 'maint', so no harm is done. It wasn't the presence of the bug I was highlighting - it was the idea that nobody uses that option. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@gmail.com