Re: format-patch on permission change gives empty patch

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