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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?

  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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