patch with file mode change only cannot be parsed?

[Stephen Finucane]

On Wed, 2019-09-18 at 17:50 +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that if a patch contains only file mode changes like:
> 
> mode change 100755 => 100644
> 
> I suspect patchwork cannot parse it hence it just drops such patch?
> 
> An example:
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-09/msg01210.html
> 
> And patchwork missed this patch in its series:
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/qemu-devel/list/?series=129493

This is fixed on master and in stable 2.1.3 [1][2]. Unfortunately
patchwork.ozlabs.org is still on 2.1.2 which is why you're not seeing
this. Hopefully they'll update at some point.

Stephen

[1] https://github.com/getpatchwork/patchwork/commit/7b141134eb97163d285daf928ab322fde27d7dc8
[2] https://github.com/getpatchwork/patchwork/commit/f205495b6a9c2a0879984b9367a5b5d0e2443058

> Regards,
> Bin