git fast-import: how to prevent incremental commit with no changes

2014-05-05 Thread Timo Teras
Hi, 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

Re: git fast-import: how to prevent incremental commit with no changes

2014-05-06 Thread Timo Teras
On Tue, 06 May 2014 12:18:16 -0700 Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: 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