From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 09:42:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Any way to get complete diff up to a tag?
Message-ID: <20100506094212.GB9921@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <A612847CFE53224C91B23E3A5B48BAC74482E50D9F@xmail3.se.axis.com>

On 2010.05.06 11:27:40 +0200, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> If I use
> 
> $ git diff $(git rev-list --reverse v1.7.1 |head -1)..v1.7.1
> 
> I almost get what I want, but the initial commit is still missing.
> Is there any way to get that initial commit included in the diff?

git internally knows about the empty tree, so you can use:
git diff 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904 v1.7.1

Björn