From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:44:14 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged Message-ID: <7vabt2667l.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > 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.