Re: [PATCH] hg-to-git: handle an empty dir in hg by combining git commits

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On Dec 5, 2007 2:01 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Mark Drago <markdrago@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >> This patch will detect that there are no changes to commit (using git-status),
> >> and will not perform the commit, but will instead combine the log messages of
> >> that (non-)commit with the next commit.
> >
> > I think a better approach would be to implement --no-tree-change-is-ok
> > option to git-commit, strictly for use by foreign scm interface scripts
> > like yours.  It does not usually make sense to record a commit that has
> > the exact same tree as its sole parent commit and that is why git-commit
> > prevents you from making that mistake, but when data from foreign scm is
> > involved, it is a different story.  We are equipped to represent such a
> > (perhaps insane, perhaps by mistake, or perhaps done on purpose) change
> > and it is better to represent it bypassing the safety valve for native
> > use.
>
> So I did "git commit --allow-empty".  With that, perhaps the following
> will fix the issue?
>
> I won't be commiting this myself until I hear a positive Ack.

I gave this a test and it works perfectly well.  Commit away.

Thanks,
Mark.

> ---
>  contrib/hg-to-git/hg-to-git.py |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/hg-to-git/hg-to-git.py b/contrib/hg-to-git/hg-to-git.py
> index 7a1c3e4..9befb92 100755
> --- a/contrib/hg-to-git/hg-to-git.py
> +++ b/contrib/hg-to-git/hg-to-git.py
> @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ for cset in range(int(tip) + 1):
>      os.system('git-ls-files -x .hg --deleted | git-update-index --remove --stdin')
>
>      # commit
> -    os.system(getgitenv(user, date) + 'git-commit -a -F %s' % filecomment)
> +    os.system(getgitenv(user, date) + 'git commit --allow-empty -a -F %s' % filecomment)
>      os.unlink(filecomment)
>
>      # tag
>
-
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