From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:15:49 GMT
Subject: Re: format-patch on permission change gives empty patch
Message-ID: <AANLkTimA4jrDXmfJp2em34fj6b1sj9kdEyZ_xPTzqcEN@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vocb6y5sq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Heya,

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 06:40, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>  (2) Treat "rebase" as a way to reproduce history faithfully, even an
>     unreasonable one.  We could teach "--allow-empty" to "am", and
>     rewrite the pipeline as "format-patch --always | am --allow-empty" to
>     implement it.

Wouldn't we then have to keep adding options for other corner cases?
Perhaps a '--plumbing' flag that makes format-patch behave sanely
(e.g., also do stuff like, turn off color and whatnot) and that makes
'git am' accept everything it knows how to understand?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier