From: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:34:07 GMT
Subject: [bug?] git-format-patch produces a 0-byte long patch for the first commit
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0903231119110.4871@axis700.grange>

Hi,

I noticed some special "features" of the first git commit, which seem at 
least inconsistent to me, even though I've got some explanations on IRC.

E.g., the sequence

mkdir x
cd x
git-init
echo hi > greating
git-commit -a
git-format-patch -1

produces a 0-byte long patch. git-format-patch HEAD^ produces an error, 
whereas with more than one commit it produces tha last patch. Yes, I know 
about "--root" and that it does allow to extract the very first commit.

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer