From: Peter Kjellerstedt Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 11:20:18 GMT Subject: RE: Any way to get complete diff up to a tag? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100506094212.GB9921@atjola.homenet> > -----Original Message----- > From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:git-owner@vger.kernel.org] On > Behalf Of Björn Steinbrink > Sent: den 6 maj 2010 11:42 > To: Peter Kjellerstedt > Cc: git@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: Any way to get complete diff up to a tag? > > 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 Thank you, that was useful. However, I need to be able to do this for an arbitrary repository, and that SHA seems to be specific for the git repository. How do I get the SHA for the empty tree in an arbitrary repository? //Peter