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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:44:14 -0700
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> Everybody who takes patches will accept crud afterwards, since the normal 
> thing is to email them around, so there's no real downside to adding some 
> status output at the end. It shouldn't screw anything up, but people will 
> hopefully notice (sure, if you exit the pager without looking at it all 
> you wouldn't notice, but that's _already_ true, so..)

Well, at least "hundreds of empty diff" has a value of getting
attention for even such a use case, so you _could_ argue this
patch is a regression ;-)

In any case, this will go in as part of the first batch after
1.5.3, I would guess.