From: Knittl Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 15:43:53 GMT Subject: Re: Any way to get complete diff up to a tag? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote: > Basically, what I think I am asking for is a way to specify the > empty parent of the initial commit, i.e., where v1.7.1~1000000 would > end up. I can see this being useful in at least one other case as > well, namely when doing an interactive rebase to allow the initial > commit to be rebased (something I have wanted to do a couple of > times...) wait, let me get this straight. you want to diff some tag against the empty parent of the root commit (empty tree)? which in turn means you will get a diff, where all lines in all files existing in the tree that tag references are added. all files get basically prefixed with + and have header information (filename). what purpose has such a diff? regards, daniel -- typed with http://neo-layout.org myFtPhp -- visit http://myftphp.sf.net -- v. 0.4.7 released!