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From: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [bug?] git-format-patch produces a 0-byte long patch for the first commit
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:34:07 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0903231119110.4871@axis700.grange> (raw)

Hi,

I noticed some special "features" of the first git commit, which seem at 
least inconsistent to me, even though I've got some explanations on IRC.

E.g., the sequence

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.

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer

             reply	other threads:[~2009-03-23 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-23 10:34 Guennadi Liakhovetski [this message]
2009-03-23 16:29 ` [bug?] git-format-patch produces a 0-byte long patch for the first commit 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 ` [bug?] git-format-patch produces a 0-byte long patch for the first commit Jeff King
2009-03-24  8:02   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2009-03-24 11:46     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-24 11:51       ` Guennadi Liakhovetski

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