On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:30:44AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > However, I wonder if this is the best approach. It would be nice if > > there were a shorthand for "the empty tree" for diffing, so you could > > just diff against that rather than HEAD, and have the regular plumbing > > generate. > > I guess you can set your worktree to an empty directory and run > diff-files backwards, like perhaps: > > mkdir /var/tmp/empty > (cd .git && GIT_WORK_TREE=/var/tmp/empty git diff -R) > > Have I tried it? No --- I am not sick enough to be motivated. Actually, I thought of that already. It does work, though when I tried it, I failed to 'cd .git' which broke it. But yes, I think it is a nastier solution than just using the "virtual" empty tree. -Peff - 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
