"git diff --stat" doesn't show added empty file

From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 12, 2009, 03:36 UTC
Message-ID: <46dff0320901111936h6343e51fo94750d83e95743dc@mail.gmail.com>

$ git --version
git version 1.6.1.9.g97c34
$ mkdir test && cd test && git init && git commit --allow-empty -m
"Initial commit"
$ touch .gitignore && git add .gitignore && git commit -m "Add empty .gitignore"
$ git diff --stat HEAD^..
 0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

May be the following is better?

 .gitignore |    0 +
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Ping Yin