Re: Any way to get complete diff up to a tag?
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- Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
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- May 6, 2010, 13:00 UTC
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2010/5/6 Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>:
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>> -----Original Message----- >> From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:git-owner@vger.kernel.org] On >> Behalf Of Björn Steinbrink >> >> 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?
It is not specific for the git repository, there is only one SHA1 for the empty tree. But it is hard-coded in git itself since 1.5.5. If you use an older git you have to create it yourself.
Santi