RE: [External] Using Git as a Database

From: rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: Sep 23, 2024, 19:09 UTC
Message-ID: <00d001db0dec$1c8fa320$55aee960$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <87r09aus7v.fsf@igel.home>

On September 23, 2024 2:43 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:

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>On Sep 23 2024, email@mateuszwielgos.com wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your reply, Han. The problem that I have with ‘—allow-empty’ is
>that the resulting commit is not associated with any particular file. I tried ‘git commit
>—allow-empty myfile.txt’ but the file argument is effectively ignored. ‘git log
>myfile.txt’ does not show the empty commit.
>
>Since the git model is snapshot based, there is no way around that, apart from
>putting the reference in the commit message which you can search with git log --
>grep=myfile.txt.

One way around this is to inject a date/timestamp in the file. Be careful about conflicts If you every try to merge. This forces a signature change in the internal blob on commit.

I am not recommending this, just suggesting a way to force the issue.