From: "Merlin Büge" <toni@bluenox07.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Question about behaviour of git-checkout --patch option
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 22:11:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200525221100.31d36d4d.toni@bluenox07.de> (raw)
Hi all!
I have a question about the behaviour of the git-checkout --patch/-p
option.
I have a small local git repository containing empty and non-empty
files. I wanted to replicate it in another directory and did the
following:
cd <target_dir>
git init
git remote add origin <origin_dir>
git fetch
git branch --track master origin/master
git checkout master .
This works like expected, I end up with a 1:1 copy of the original
worktree, including empty files. However, if I include the -p option in
the last step:
git checkout -p master .
... I correctly get asked for any non-empty files/hunks if I want to
apply them - but not for empty ones. It would just display e.g.
diff --git b/emptyfile a/emptyfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
and then skip over it, asking for the next non-empty hunk.
Why does it skip over empty hunks?
Thanks!
--
Merlin Büge
next reply other threads:[~2020-05-25 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-25 20:11 Merlin Büge [this message]
2020-05-27 7:56 ` Question about behaviour of git-checkout --patch option Jeff King
2020-05-27 1:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-05-27 8:00 ` Jeff King
2020-05-27 10:32 ` Merlin Büge
2020-05-27 4:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-05-27 21:27 ` Merlin Büge
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