On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:25:43AM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:59:34PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: > > Guido Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > >> FEATURE REQUEST > > >> > > >> Could there be a new option --force-empty-commit that would: > > >> > > >> * Commit with message-only: "Imported .... (no changes)" > > >> * mark the commit as usual "upstream/version" > > > > > > I don't think we can create a new commit object without any changes. Is > > > this possible in git? > > > > This "git commit" option does it: > > > > --allow-empty > Yes. This works indeed (this options wasn't in older git versions) - it > cretes an empty (except for the commit message) commit object. Thinking about this, I'll do the following: * leave the default behaviour as is - failing if one wants to import the same upstream tarball twise is the correct default I think * add an --allow-empty that will simply be passed on to git-commit This way everything should work as you expected. -- Guido
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