Re: Creating commits with empty changesets

Jö Fahlke wrote on Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 12:47:43 +0100:
> Am Tue, 8. Nov 2011, 12:53:47 +0200 schrieb Daniel Shahaf:
> > How does git-svn deal with a revision that contains only no-op text
> > mods and no prop mods (such as the one you created in your
> > COPYING's history)?
>
> You get a revision with no changes in file content compared to the previous
> revision and it's own log message.
>
> In fact, I tried to get a revision with empty changeset into the subversion
> repository with git-svn[1]. But when committing my local changes to svn the
> empty revision was omitted (and removed from the git HEAD as well).

Thanks for the info.

Regarding empty revisions, even if Subversion prevents them in the UI
I won't be entirely surprised to discover that a program written to our
lower-level public APIs can create such revisions nonetheless.
Received on 2011-11-08 12:54:12 CET