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 ShadeHawk on #git - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html