Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Marko Macek <marko.macek@gmx.net> writes:
> 
>>>> BTW, currently there's a minor bug: git-diff HEAD doesn't work before
>>>> you make the first commit. Perhaps this should be special cased.
>>>
>>> That's only a _bug_ in your implementation of the synonym for
>>> "svn diff" which blindly used "git diff HEAD".
>>
>> My "implementation" is taken from git-diff man page. It seems obvious
>> that the situation before the first commit is just a special case if
>> we consider git-diff to be Porcelain (which I do).
> 
> Yes, "git diff" is a Porcelain.  No question about it.
> 
> I do not consider the current behaviour of "git diff HEAD" that
> complains instead of giving runs of "foo is a new file and no
> diff is available for it" a bug; you asked for diff from some
> commit but the commit you gave was bogus (does not exist yet).

git diff --root HEAD, perhaps?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git


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