From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:54:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [bug?] git-format-patch produces a 0-byte long patch for the first commit
Message-ID: <20090324075424.GC32400@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0903231119110.4871@axis700.grange>

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.

-Peff