From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:29:29 GMT
Subject: Re: format-patch on permission change gives empty patch
Message-ID: <7vmxqpwxue.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1010071503210.3107@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:

> 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?

The second message from DaveM:

    Message-ID: <20101006.174008.70175671.davem@davemloft.net>

    Ok it turns out that the commit in question was a NOP since the file
    permissions didn't change.