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Re: [bug?] git-format-patch produces a 0-byte long patch for the first commit

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 24, 2009, 07:54 UTC
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<20090324075424.GC32400@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:34:07AM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
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> 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
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Message 5 of 8 in “[bug?] git-format-patch produces a 0-byte long patch for the first commit”
  1. Guennadi LiakhovetskiMar 23, 2009
  2. Thomas RastMar 23, 2009
  3. Guennadi LiakhovetskiMar 23, 2009
  4. Documentation: format-patch --root clarificationsThomas Rast, Mar 26, 2009
  5. Jeff KingMar 24, 2009
  6. Guennadi LiakhovetskiMar 24, 2009
  7. Johannes SchindelinMar 24, 2009
  8. Guennadi LiakhovetskiMar 24, 2009

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