On Tue, 06 May 2014 12:18:16 -0700 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Timo Teras <timo.teras@xxxxxx> writes: > > > I'm trying to script a setup that would periodically import a > > tarball to git with fast-import. But things do not always change, > > so I'd like fast-import to be able to not do the commit in case > > there is no change. > > > > That is, I'm constructing the commit with "deleteall" + importing > > each object by mark after that. Now, in case nothing changed, > > fast-import will happily create an empty commit for me. > > > > Would it be possible to add some flag that would make commit fail in > > case nothing changed? > > > > Any suggestions how to do this? > > I am not sure if such a conditional logically belongs to what > fast-import does. Would it be an option for your script to rewind > the HEAD after the import is done and it finds that the tarball did > not have anything interesting new? Yes, this is what I ended up with for now. I wanted to avoid this mostly so that I would not need to run "git gc --prune=now" or similar after each import (or at least not "often"). Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html