tests: suppress system gitattributes

diff --git a/builtin/diff.c b/builtin/diff.c
index a08c3240d5825bd4cded9a9e9e481008a381e0c9..4c9deb28ec15d0c2adae795cc2c177b24256e585 100644 (file)
--- 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;
                        }
                }
@@ -371,14 +374,10 @@ int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                }
                die("unhandled object '%s' given.", name);
        }
-       if (rev.prune_data) {
-               const char **pathspec = rev.prune_data;
-               while (*pathspec) {
-                       if (!path)
-                               path = *pathspec;
-                       paths++;
-                       pathspec++;
-               }
+       if (rev.prune_data.nr) {
+               if (!path)
+                       path = rev.prune_data.items[0].match;
+               paths += rev.prune_data.nr;
        }
 
        /*