On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Jeff King wrote: > 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. Mine is still 1.5.4, if it's already fixed in the meantime - all the better! Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer -- 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
