From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:30:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [Bug] git add -i fails in multiple ways prior to first commit.
Message-ID: <7v63wtqejf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080213101649.GA18444@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> However, I wonder if this is the best approach. It would be nice if
> there were a shorthand for "the empty tree" for diffing, so you could
> just diff against that rather than HEAD, and have the regular plumbing
> generate.

I guess you can set your worktree to an empty directory and run
diff-files backwards, like perhaps:

	mkdir /var/tmp/empty
        (cd .git && GIT_WORK_TREE=/var/tmp/empty git diff -R)

Have I tried it?  No --- I am not sick enough to be motivated.