From b162563dc1c6126953e66cdcc508f389b9d39d8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 21:48:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Deal with git behavior change in 1.7.8 and newer that broke
 support for commits with an empty commit message.

---
 IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm | 5 ++++-
 debian/changelog      | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm
index 3879abeae..0852ce10d 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm
@@ -550,7 +550,10 @@ sub rcs_commit_helper (@) {
 		# Force git to allow empty commit messages.
 		# (If this version of git supports it.)
 		my ($version)=`git --version` =~ /git version (.*)/;
-		if ($version ge "1.5.4") {
+		if ($version ge "1.7.2") {
+			push @opts, "--allow-empty-message";
+		}
+		elsif ($version ge "1.5.4") {
 			push @opts, '--cleanup=verbatim';
 		}
 		else {
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8d55d5df8..22dc3eb47 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+ikiwiki (3.20130711) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Deal with git behavior change in 1.7.2 and newer that broke support
+    for commits with an empty commit message.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 10 Jul 2013 21:49:23 -0400
+
 ikiwiki (3.20130710) unstable; urgency=low
 
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