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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Mark Drago <markdrago@gmail.com>,
	stelian@popies.net, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-commit --allow-empty
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:58:29 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0712031255560.9605@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v63zgkw0x.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> +--allow-empty::
> +	Usually recording a commit that has the exact same tree as its
> +	sole parent commit and the command prevents you from making such
> +	a mistake.  This option bypasses the safety, and is primarily
> +	for use by foreign scm interface scripts.

The first sentence is rather buggy I would say.


Nicolas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-03 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-01 17:59 [PATCH] hg-to-git: handle an empty dir in hg by combining git commits Mark Drago
2007-12-01 20:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03  8:44   ` [PATCH] git-commit --allow-empty Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03  8:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03 17:58     ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2007-12-03 18:16       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-05  7:01   ` [PATCH] hg-to-git: handle an empty dir in hg by combining git commits Junio C Hamano
2007-12-06 12:50     ` Mark Drago

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