#status fails on a new repo

[costa]

Subject of the issue

Git::GitExecuteError (git '--git-dir=/proj/my-proj/.git' '--work-tree=/proj/my-proj' diff-index 'HEAD' 2>&1:fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.)
when there is no HEAD.

($ git status works fine)

Your environment

• version of git (2.20.1) and ruby-git (1.6.0)
• version of ruby (2.6.5)

Steps to reproduce

$ cd "$(mktemp -d)"; git init .; echo 'Git.open(".").status' | ruby -rgit

Expected behaviour

a return value, perhaps?
with untracked/cached files preferably

Actual behaviour

exception above

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[costa]

?

[jelaniwoods]

@costa This happens to me as well. It looks like the culprit is that g.status doesn't actually call the git status. It calls git diff-files and then git diff-index HEAD, which will fail since there are no commits.

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[costa]

@jcouball Hi James, are you sure the bot is necessary?

Also, your latest commit seems to have a problem with your credentials, probably to git misconfiguration.

[jcouball]

@costa, agree the bot is a pain.

Which last commit are you talking about?

[costa]

Hey @jcouball, sorry for the delay, been a little crazy.

It was an offtopic remark, 4bef5ab looks like you haven't set the author correctly.
But this is not the issue here, of course.

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