From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:06:05 GMT
Subject: Re: format-patch on permission change gives empty patch
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1010071503210.3107@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vocb6y5sq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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?


Nicolas