Re: format-patch on permission change gives empty patch

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Heya,

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 06:40, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Â(2) Treat "rebase" as a way to reproduce history faithfully, even an
> Â Â unreasonable one. ÂWe could teach "--allow-empty" to "am", and
> Â Â rewrite the pipeline as "format-patch --always | am --allow-empty" to
> Â Â 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?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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