From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthias Kestenholz Subject: Re: pseudo initial empty commit and tag for git-log and git-describe? Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:10:00 +0200 Message-ID: <1158761400.6516.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 20 16:10:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GQ2mI-0001O2-Ec for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:10:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751536AbWITOKN convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:10:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751539AbWITOKM (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:10:12 -0400 Received: from elephant.oekohosting.ch ([80.74.144.79]:2688 "EHLO elephant.oekohosting.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751535AbWITOKL (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:10:11 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by elephant.oekohosting.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8751B62C186; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:10:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from elephant.oekohosting.ch ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (elephant.oekohosting.ch [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32453-01; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:10:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.7] (18.51.203.62.cust.bluewin.ch [62.203.51.18]) by elephant.oekohosting.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id E180D62C183; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:10:00 +0200 (CEST) To: =?UTF-8?Q?Nguy=E1=BB=85n_Th=C3=A1i_Ng=E1=BB=8Dc?= Duy In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: hello On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 20:58 +0700, Nguy=E1=BB=85n Th=C3=A1i Ng=E1=BB=8D= c Duy wrote: > I'm still uncomfortable with git-log -p unable to show the first > commit (git-whatchanged too). Also git-describe refuses to work > without any tag. I'm thinking about adding a pseudo empty commit > together with a tag so that these commands work. The commit and tag > will be created at runtime. They do not actually exist in the object > database. I haven't thought about how to implement it yet. > Any other ideas? you can use git log -p --root to also display the root commit. Matthias