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Peter Baumann <peter.baumann@gmail.com> writes:

> How can I get the inital commit as a patch?

format-patch is designed to get a patch to send to upstream, and
does not handle the root commit.  In your two revisions
repository, you could do something like this:

	$ git diff-tree -p --root master~1

Or more in general:

	$ git rev-list master |
          git diff-tree --stdin --root --pretty=fuller -p

BTW, I've been meaning to add --pretty=patch to give
format-patch compatible output to diff-tree, but haven't got
around to actually do it.  Another thing I've been meaning to do
is "git log --diff" which is more or less "git whatchanged".