Re: format-patch on permission change gives empty patch

Sverre Rabbelier [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 06:40, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

 (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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