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Diffstat (limited to 'builtin/diff.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/diff.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/diff.c b/builtin/diff.c index 945e7583a8..42822cd537 100644 --- a/builtin/diff.c +++ b/builtin/diff.c @@ -330,8 +330,11 @@ int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) else if (!strcmp(arg, "--cached") || !strcmp(arg, "--staged")) { add_head_to_pending(&rev); - if (!rev.pending.nr) - die("No HEAD commit to compare with (yet)"); + if (!rev.pending.nr) { + struct tree *tree; + tree = lookup_tree((const unsigned char*)EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN); + add_pending_object(&rev, &tree->object, "HEAD"); + } break; } } |