Hi, On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > 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! There is the off-chance that somewhere in those 3127 commits between v1.5.4 and v1.6.1.1, not only this bug is fixed. You might be surprised ;-) Seriously again, in a project that moves as fast as Git, you should always test with a recent version, and v1.5.1 -- being over one year old -- does not account for recent. Ciao, 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
