From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:05:07 GMT
Subject: Re: format-patch on permission change gives empty patch
Message-ID: <m3eic2fher.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimA4jrDXmfJp2em34fj6b1sj9kdEyZ_xPTzqcEN@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:
> 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?

Hmmm... doesn't rebase pipeline use "format-patch --rebasing" (where
'--rebasing' is internal option deliberately left undocumented)?

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Jakub Narebski
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