Re: Can't export whole repo as patches

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Apr 7, 2006, 19:18 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr749i48s.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060407184701.GA6686@xp.machine.de>

Peter Baumann <peter.baumann@gmail.com> writes:

> How can I get the inital commit as a patch?

format-patch is designed to get a patch to send to upstream, and does not handle the root commit. In your two revisions repository, you could do something like this:

	$ git diff-tree -p --root master~1

Or more in general:

	$ git rev-list master |
          git diff-tree --stdin --root --pretty=fuller -p

BTW, I've been meaning to add --pretty=patch to give format-patch compatible output to diff-tree, but haven't got around to actually do it. Another thing I've been meaning to do is "git log --diff" which is more or less "git whatchanged".