From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:35:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] filter-branch: add git_commit_non_empty_tree and --prune-empty.
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901111433580.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090111111800.GA8032@artemis.corp>

Hi,

On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Pierre Habouzit wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 07:29:15PM +0000, Jay Soffian wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 09:27:29AM +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > >> On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 04:58:44AM +0000, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > Bump, http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/99440/
> > 
> > (I'd like to see this included. Having a bunch of empty commits after
> > using filter-branch to remove unwanted files from history is, er,
> > sub-optimal, so seems like it might even be default behavior?)
> 
> Yeah I have that in my own git tree, and I meant to ask if something had 
> to be fixed for it to be accepted for some time, but always forget about 
> it.
> 
> Junio, do you think this could be accepted, or does it need some work ?

AFAICT Junio had some style issues which were not addressed.

And I suggested to merge the tests with Sverre's patch.  That suggestion 
also went unaddressed.

Ciao,
Dscho