Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 8, 2007, 03:44 UTC
Message-ID: <7vabt2667l.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708072004150.23971@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> Everybody who takes patches will accept crud afterwards, since the normal 
> thing is to email them around, so there's no real downside to adding some 
> status output at the end. It shouldn't screw anything up, but people will 
> hopefully notice (sure, if you exit the pager without looking at it all 
> you wouldn't notice, but that's _already_ true, so..)

Well, at least "hundreds of empty diff" has a value of getting attention for even such a use case, so you _could_ argue this patch is a regression ;-)

In any case, this will go in as part of the first batch after 1.5.3, I would guess.