From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug?] git-format-patch produces a 0-byte long patch for the first commit
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:54:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090324075424.GC32400@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0903231119110.4871@axis700.grange>
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:34:07AM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> mkdir x
> cd x
> git-init
> echo hi > greating
> git-commit -a
> git-format-patch -1
>
> produces a 0-byte long patch. git-format-patch HEAD^ produces an error,
> whereas with more than one commit it produces tha last patch. Yes, I know
> about "--root" and that it does allow to extract the very first commit.
What version of git are you using? I believe the 0-byte diff has been
fixed since git 1.6.1.1.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-24 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-23 10:34 [bug?] git-format-patch produces a 0-byte long patch for the first commit Guennadi Liakhovetski
2009-03-23 16:29 ` Thomas Rast
2009-03-23 16:46 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2009-03-26 17:29 ` [PATCH] Documentation: format-patch --root clarifications Thomas Rast
2009-03-24 7:54 ` Jeff King [this message]
2009-03-24 8:02 ` [bug?] git-format-patch produces a 0-byte long patch for the first commit Guennadi Liakhovetski
2009-03-24 11:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-24 11:51 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
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