Merge branch 'maint'

diff --git a/builtin/diff.c b/builtin/diff.c
index 945e7583a8294f0612682f3228687498e5c61822..42822cd5374dbcf0e63c17078a55284c432ddc77 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;
                        }
                }