Re: "git diff --stat" doesn't show added empty file

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Jan 12, 2009, 15:41 UTC
Message-ID: <496B64BA.7000408@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901121319210.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin venit, vidit, dixit 01/12/09 13:19:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Ping Yin wrote:
> 
>> $ git --version
>> git version 1.6.1.9.g97c34
>> $ mkdir test && cd test && git init && git commit --allow-empty -m
>> "Initial commit"
>> $ touch .gitignore && git add .gitignore && git commit -m "Add empty .gitignore"
>> $ git diff --stat HEAD^..
>>  0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> May be the following is better?
>>
>>  .gitignore |    0 +
>>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> Have fun coding that.

Removing 5 lines from diff.c does the job, except for the " +" after 0, but I don't know if that output is really better. Is the addition/removal of an empty file a file change? It's certainly a change of the containing dir, which git does not track. I don't see how to distinguish addition from removal of an empty file at that point in the code yet. This might be the "fun" part...

Michael