Re: Strange output of git-diff-tree

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

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First (noticed by matled) is that for git-diff-tree with single tree
as an argument it outputs fist commit-id of commit given at input. 
It is not mentioned in documentation and I think totally unnecessary:

1038:jnareb@roke:~/git> git diff-tree --abbrev origin
d5dc6a76d49367cddc015e01d2e9aa22e64d7e28
:040000 040000 44fb36d... 1c26294... M  Documentation

Working as specified as in the original version.  See
core-tutorial and look for "git-diff-tree -p HEAD".

My mistake -- if you are talking about the first line that shows
the commit object name, I am not sure if this was from the
beginning or a recent slip-up.  Will need to look into it.

I thought you were talking about 1-argument diff-tree, sorry.

Turns out that git-diff-tree from 1.0.0 behaves this way.  Since
7384889 (May 18, 2005), one-tree form of diff-tree showed the
"header" line that has the commit object name at the top, and
since 1809266 (Jun 23, 2005) we have exactly one commit object
name there; before that we used to say "commitA (from commitB)".

I agree that showing the single argument that is given on the
command line as the first output line might seem redundant, but
it has been done this way for a long time (eternity in git
timescale), so let's not risk breaking people's scripts by
changing it.