[Monotone-devel] empty commit / question from Datakko

[Nico Schottelius]

Hello again!

In IRC Datakko asked about empty commits from monotone. Right said that
I read the thread on tla asking more or less the same.
The tla guys decided empty commits explicit to be allowed and I think
it's quite senseful. Read more at bottom.

Nico

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In lists.arch.users, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> another oddity.
>
> When calling "tla commit" without changes in the tree it
> still will create a patch set.

Correct.

>
> IMHO it should complain that there are no changes and
> exit(-1), what it it good for generating an empty
> patch-set.  (o.k. there is a log in the patch-set but
> nothing else ;-/)

Not so. :) 

Here's two reasons: 

1. This provides a mechanism for adding a note to the patchlogs without
having to make a nonsense patch. (For example, 'blaming')

2. If you get stuck in a position where you need to cacherev, but you
don't have any code that you actually need to change, you can do an
'empty commit' to push a cacherev to a mirror.


>
> Done with tla-1.2-3.
>
> Bye Robert
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