Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> mkdir x
> cd x
> git-init
> echo hi > greating
> git-commit -a
[...]
> git-format-patch HEAD^ produces an error,
There is no HEAD^ in this case. HEAD is always the currently checked
out commit. Since it has a root commit, it has no parent, so you
cannot apply ^ ("the first parent of") to it. Similarly, HEAD~2 will
not work if HEAD~1 has no parent, etc.
> git-format-patch -1 produces a 0-byte long patch.
That is admittedly weird and probably deserves a fix and/or suggestion
to use --root.
I'm not sure what else I can add to the explanations I gave on IRC.
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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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