Hi, your mailing process has a problem; neither the recipients nor the subject made it into the mail header. On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, nathan.panike@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > >From 65c4fed27fe9752ffd0e3b7cb6807561a4dd4601 Mon Sep 17 00: 00:00 2001 > From: Nathan W. Panike <nathan.panike@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:53:43 -0600 > Subject: [PATCH] Get format-patch to show first commit after root commit > > Currently, the command > > git format-patch -1 e83c5163316f89bfbde You do not need -1, and using 19 digits seems a bit arbitrary; the convention seems to be 7 digits (that is what --abbrev-commit does). > > in the git repository creates an empty file. Instead, one is > forced to do > > git format-patch -1 --root e83c5163316f89bfbde > > This seems arbitrary. This patch fixes this case, so that > > git format-patch -1 e83c5163316f89bfbde > > will produce an actual patch. IMHO mentioning --root is misleading, as the real bug is the empty diff. Apart from that, I like the patch, though. Thanks, Dscho -- 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
