On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:34:07AM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > mkdir x > cd x > git-init > echo hi > greating > git-commit -a > git-format-patch -1 > > produces a 0-byte long patch. git-format-patch HEAD^ produces an error, > whereas with more than one commit it produces tha last patch. Yes, I know > about "--root" and that it does allow to extract the very first commit. What version of git are you using? I believe the 0-byte diff has been fixed since git 1.6.1.1. -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