Subject: Re: git-show --stat on first commit

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:49:53 +0100

Andy Parkins wrote:
> On Tuesday 2006 November 21 20:03, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
>> We don't show patch for merges by default in git-show, so I don't
>> see why we would want to show root commit diff in git-show by default:
>> those two are very similar.
> 
> $ git init-db
> $ date > file1
> $ git add file1; git commit -a -m "file1 added"
> $ date > file2
> $ git add file2; git commit -a -m "file2 added"
> $ git show --stat HEAD
> $ git show --stat HEAD^
> 
> I can understand while people get confused.  Two patches, both add a file.  
> git-show on one of them shows a stat; on the other it doesn't.

Well, perhaps "git show --stat" should show diffstat also for root
commit, because it shows diffstat for merges (although not patch),
but not patch (which usually is huge).
-- 
Jakub Narebski