From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:56:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Possible bug in Git
Message-ID: <7vvdbrcp5g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1004160845350.15116@i5.linux-foundation.org>

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

> I guess the issue is that combine-diff decides that there is nothing in 
> the result that isn't in either of the sources (because there is nothing 
> at all in the result), and as such it's not "interesting" after all.

There was already a "fix" posted for the "empty vs missing" confusion.

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Subject: [PATCH] combined diff: correctly handle truncated file
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:59:37 +0200
Message-ID:
 <884b9b68a4478aceda580299c059a9a67417cb1c.1271336073.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>

I've been busy for the past few days, but I have it in my 'to-maint'
queue.  We may actually want to do the same for "missing" case as well,
though.