Timo Teras <timo.te...@iki.fi> 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? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
