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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: format-patch on permission change gives empty patch
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:37:14 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101006.173714.245380201.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)


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.

davem@sunset:~/src/GIT/net-2.6$ git show
commit a5dbc62ed61bf4cc57e22b78e5794880f1c74b90
Author: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 6 17:32:49 2010 -0700

    Documentation/networking/ixgbevf.txt: Change file permissions to 644
    
    Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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davem@sunset:~/src/GIT/net-2.6$ git format-patch HEAD^
0001-Documentation-networking-ixgbevf.txt-Change-file-per.patch
davem@sunset:~/src/GIT/net-2.6$ ls -l 0001-Documentation-networking-ixgbevf.txt-Change-file-per.patch 
-rw-r--r-- 1 davem davem 0 Oct  6 17:36 0001-Documentation-networking-ixgbevf.txt-Change-file-per.patch
davem@sunset:~/src/GIT/net-2.6$ git version
git version 1.7.3.1

             reply	other threads:[~2010-10-07  0:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-07  0:37 David Miller [this message]
2010-10-07  0:40 ` format-patch on permission change gives empty patch David Miller
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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