Re: [PATCH] am: don't infloop for an empty input file

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 26, 2012, 23:58 UTC
Message-ID: <7vty2dcflb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87399y24wt.fsf@rho.meyering.net>

Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> writes:

> Today, "git am" surprised me.
> I mistakenly ran it on an empty file and it went into an infinite loop.

Yeah, that is an embarrassing regression in 1.7.7.

Thanks for noticing.

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