[ -n "$(git grep '^[-]--' "$name" -- ".topmsg")" ] || echo '---'
# Evil obnoxious hack to work around the lack of git diff --exclude
-git_is_stupid="$(mktemp)"
+git_is_stupid="$(mktemp -t tg-patch-changes.XXXXXX)"
git diff-tree --name-only "$base_rev" "$name" |
fgrep -vx ".topdeps" |
fgrep -vx ".topmsg" >"$git_is_stupid" || : # fgrep likes to fail randomly?