On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:56:50PM -0800, Atousa Duprat wrote: > I agree with Yac that this error is unwarranted, though it's been like > that since forever. > If a repo is empty, git rev-list should probably just return without > erroring out. > The fix is trivial, if the list agrees that this is in fact legit.
I think we had a similar discussion for "git log" with an empty HEAD, and decided that it was better to keep the behavior the same for compatibility reasons. I think that would apply doubly for rev-list, which is used by scripts. In the "log" case, we did improve the error message: $ git init $ git.v2.5.0 log fatal: bad default revision 'HEAD' $ git.v2.6.3 log fatal: your current branch 'master' does not have any commits yet Maybe a good first step would be improving the error message? -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
