Michael J Gruber venit, vidit, dixit 15.09.2008 22:49: > Anatol Pomozov venit, vidit, dixit 15.09.2008 22:01: >> Hi, It looks like I found a bug in git. >> >> The problem: In my script I need to know what files were modified by >> given commit. I use diff-tree for it. Although it works for most >> cases, for initial commit it does not. Here is a sequence of actions. >> >> >> anatol:~ $ mkdir mkdir initialcommitissue anatol:~ $ cd >> initialcommitissue/ anatol:initialcommitissue $ git init Initialized >> empty Git repository in /home/anatol/initialcommitissue/.git/ >> anatol:initialcommitissue $ echo "First commit" > 1.txt >> anatol:initialcommitissue $ git add 1.txt anatol:initialcommitissue $ >> git commit -m "First commit" Created initial commit 31ccc6a: First >> commit 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode >> 100644 1.txt anatol:initialcommitissue $ git diff-tree HEAD <<<<< >> PROBLEM IS HERE > > From the man page: > > Compares the content and mode of the blobs found via two tree > objects. > > If there is only one <tree-ish> given, the commit is compared > with its parents (see --stdin below). > > Note that git-diff-tree can use the tree encapsulated in a commit > object. > > > The initial commit has no parent, so diff-tree does not know which tree > to compare to. > > You can do > > git diff-tree 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904 HEAD > > but I guess you suggest that diff-tree should do that automatically for > a single parentless treeish: bug -> RFE > > diff-tree is plumbing. Would this change break anything? > > Michael Ooops, that man page is just too long. Scrolling way down: "git commit-tree --root" treats the root as a commit with an empty tree. So this does what you want. But you may want to look into porcelain like git show --pretty=format: --name-only Michael -- 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
