From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:07:51 GMT
Subject: git-diff between /dev/null and blob
Message-ID: <eajl4r$b7o$1@sea.gmane.org>

Currently, due to artifact of git-diff argument parsing you can get diff 
of two arbitrary blobs given by their sha1 id, e.g.
  git diff ab8050ceb4e43522e858768cc2c02fcb91839370 fd05278808d458602587bb024a48726018d30926
but you cannot use git-diff to create diff between two files, or a file
and blob. 

In particular, I couldn't make "creation" patch, i.e. patch between 
/dev/null and specified blob. If it would be possible, we could lose
gitweb.cgi dependency on diff.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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