Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: fix has_action

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Am 8/5/2011 14:36, schrieb Sverre Rabbelier:
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 21:34, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>        has_action () {
>>          test -s "$1"
>>        }
> 
>>        has_action () {
>>          sane_grep -v -e '^#' -e '^[   ]*$' "$1" >/dev/null
>>        }
> 
> I think the former more correctly checks what the function name
> implies, is there any downside to that which makes you suggest this
> second approach?

Yes. There might be editors where it is difficult to edit a non-empty file
so that it becomes empty. I recall this was a problem for me with vi
before I got intimately acquainted with it.

-- Hannes
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