Re: [Gnu-arch-users] "tla commit" generates a patch-set even if there are no changes

[Stefan Monnier]

>> For scripts, you'd want to use
>> `tla changes -o foo', then check whether `foo' is empty, and if not
>> do `tla commit foo'.  Or something along those lines.
> For scripts, you should use `tla changes -q', and check the exit status.

But that means in the common case, you do `tla changes -q' and then
`tla commit': overall you do 2 full traversal of your tree, thus you just
slowed down this operation by a factor of 2.
I already find it to be les than speed of light, so I'd rather avoid
an aditional factor of 2 just to detect the rare case where there
were no changes made.


        Stefan