From: Matthias Kestenholz <lists@spinlock.ch>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:10:00 GMT
Subject: Re: pseudo initial empty commit and tag for git-log and git-describe?
Message-ID: <1158761400.6516.25.camel@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0609200658p3f04df7oe91ddb971787bd70@mail.gmail.com>

hello

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 20:58 +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc 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