Junio C Hamano wrote: > The reason I am not interested in the feature > is because I don't see much value in running "git diff EMPTY <anything>". > Perhaps "git archive" might be what the user really wants to find. I suspect the goal was to use a tool such as checkpatch, or get_maintainer without -f. An implementation using git archive should still work (with the help of a tar diff-ing program with the EMPTY feature ;-)), but as UI that might be less discoverable than building it into git diff. Personally, I liked both the git diff $(</dev/null git hash-object -t tree --stdin) $rev and git diff --root $rev suggestions. That may be from a warped sense of aesthetics. Cheers, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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