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pseudo initial empty commit and tag for git-log and git-describe?

From
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 20, 2006, 13:58 UTC
Message-ID
<fcaeb9bf0609200658p3f04df7oe91ddb971787bd70@mail.gmail.com>

I'm still uncomfortable with git-log -p unable to show the first commit (git-whatchanged too). Also git-describe refuses to work without any tag. I'm thinking about adding a pseudo empty commit together with a tag so that these commands work. The commit and tag will be created at runtime. They do not actually exist in the object database. I haven't thought about how to implement it yet. Any other ideas?

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Duy
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  1. Nguyễn Thái Ngọc DuySep 20, 2006
  2. Matthias KestenholzSep 20, 2006
  3. Nguyễn Thái Ngọc DuySep 21, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2006

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