From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guennadi Liakhovetski Subject: Re: [bug?] git-format-patch produces a 0-byte long patch for the first commit Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:02:43 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <20090324075424.GC32400@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 24 09:04:17 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lm1cL-0005vs-B0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:04:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754690AbZCXICn (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:02:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754434AbZCXICm (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:02:42 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:48833 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753807AbZCXICk (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:02:40 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Mar 2009 08:02:37 -0000 Received: from p57BD2955.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO axis700.grange) [87.189.41.85] by mail.gmx.net (mp047) with SMTP; 24 Mar 2009 09:02:37 +0100 X-Authenticated: #20450766 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/kHe184NHksRDIhZWuAJyaPOaGCIuA6hFgtJ4eJA mbCjIUwCEgzv67 Received: from lyakh (helo=localhost) by axis700.grange with local-esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Lm1at-0001EL-TR; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:02:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20090324075424.GC32400@coredump.intra.peff.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.6 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Jeff King wrote: > 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. Mine is still 1.5.4, if it's already fixed in the meantime - all the better! Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer