Re: gitk shows an empty line between "Comments" and changed files

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Pavel Roskin wrote:

quoted

I do not oppose dropping the commit-id line from the default
output, but having it optionally available would be useful in
one application.  Somebody _could_ write a tool that does
something like:

    git-rev-list ^$old_head $new_head |
    git-diff-tree -p -m --stdin --with-commit-ids |
    git-patch-id

Sounds good.  Perhaps the commit IDs should have a prefix identifying
them.

Guys, why do you want to drop it? We've always had it, and it doesn't 
really hurt.

Yes, gitk got a new empty line because I didn't realize that the output of 
"git-diff-tree $commit" is slightly different from "git-diff-tree $t2 
$t2", but hey, that was due to a gitk change, and I think it should be 
trivial for gitk to just react to it.

So if we add a new flag, please make it go the other way: one that makes 
the output really quiet, but keeps the standard output the same.

		Linus