From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:00:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] log: Handle new repository case.
Message-ID: <7v7guuen8m.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAA3EhHK25rLU-gQNUG0cmJ4E1g+Ce6AHcMF6jzcco5QaTJE+jA@mail.gmail.com>

Leila <muhtasib@gmail.com> writes:

>> I didn't think about other commands, but I do not think format-patch
>> wants to silently succeed without doing anything---it is definitely
>> a user error, no?
>>
>
> The other changed commands are git show, git whatchanged, git reflog.
> And I think for the initial repo case, they can just silently succeed
> vs display that error message.

What should happen if you say "git log/show/whatchanged" immediately
after running "git checkout --orphan foo"?  Should these commands
succeed silently?