bug#21166: 24.4; vc-mode and git error on newly added file to new repository

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com> writes:

> How about this: check for the error message, and if found then just
> print 'empty tree, so no diff to print'.
> That would be good enough.  No need for an extra process call either
> before or after.

This was five years ago.  I tried this in Emacs 28, and the problem is
still present.

As Dmitry says, this is a quite unusual situation, so perhaps the
current error message

fatal: bad revision 'HEAD'

is fine?  It's slightly confusing...  but not very.

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