From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: format-patch on permission change gives empty patch Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:06:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20101006.173714.245380201.davem@davemloft.net> <20101006.174008.70175671.davem@davemloft.net> <7vtykyy70w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vocb6y5sq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, David Miller To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 07 21:06:16 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P3vnD-00043D-Rj for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:06:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751809Ab0JGTGJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2010 15:06:09 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:35973 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751352Ab0JGTGJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2010 15:06:09 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([66.130.28.92]) by vl-mh-mrz21.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0L9X00KWIP1YMYE0@vl-mh-mrz21.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:05:58 -0400 (EDT) X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home In-reply-to: <7vocb6y5sq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I have a mixed feeling about where to go next. > > (1) Treat "rebase" as a way to reproduce a reasonable history; the > current behaviour to drop empty commits is consistent with this view, > as a history with an empty commit is _not_ entirely reasonable. But a file mode change isn't exactly an empty commit, no? Nicolas