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-rw-r--r--services/gitdiff/gitdiff.go6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/services/gitdiff/gitdiff.go b/services/gitdiff/gitdiff.go
index 09a826500b..85354784d4 100644
--- a/services/gitdiff/gitdiff.go
+++ b/services/gitdiff/gitdiff.go
@@ -752,6 +752,12 @@ func GetDiffRangeWithWhitespaceBehavior(repoPath, beforeCommitID, afterCommitID
shortstatArgs = []string{git.EmptyTreeSHA, afterCommitID}
}
diff.NumFiles, diff.TotalAddition, diff.TotalDeletion, err = git.GetDiffShortStat(repoPath, shortstatArgs...)
+ if err != nil && strings.Contains(err.Error(), "no merge base") {
+ // git >= 2.28 now returns an error if base and head have become unrelated.
+ // previously it would return the results of git diff --shortstat base head so let's try that...
+ shortstatArgs = []string{beforeCommitID, afterCommitID}
+ diff.NumFiles, diff.TotalAddition, diff.TotalDeletion, err = git.GetDiffShortStat(repoPath, shortstatArgs...)
+ }
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}