[PATCH] parser: recognise git commit consisting only of empty new file

[Daniel Axtens]

Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru> writes:

> On Thu, 2019-02-28 at 15:29 +1100, Daniel Axtens wrote:
>> Commits with only an empty new file are liable to be missed.
>> The parser state machine doesn't recognise the headers "new
>> file mode" and "index": teach it about them.
>> 
>> Add a test to demonstrate.
>> 
>> It's a little bit academic as you don't usually send patches like
>> that but sometimes you do, especially if you're a snowpatch dev :)
>> 
>> Closes: #256
>> Reported-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>
>
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru>
>
> ...and applied. Thanks!

Thanks! Should we apply this to stable as well? (I'm happy to do the
legwork and apply it if you're OK with it.)

Regards,
Daniel