Re: [PATCH] gitk: Show patch for initial commit

Marcus Karlsson [off-list ref] writes:

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diff --git a/gitk-git/gitk b/gitk-git/gitk
index 4cde0c4..20aeae6 100755
--- a/gitk-git/gitk
+++ b/gitk-git/gitk

@@ -7436,7 +7436,7 @@ proc diffcmd {ids flags} {
 	    lappend cmd HEAD
 	}
     } else {
-	set cmd [concat | git diff-tree -r $flags $ids]
+	set cmd [concat | git diff-tree -r --root $flags $ids]
     }
     return $cmd
 }

Cool, this works for me! But I think I would be really nice if gitk
respected the configuration value of log.showroot. This would give
nice consistency amongst the various tools.

I agree, that would be reasonable. I'll prepare a new patch with that
behavior.

That would be good, but whatever you do please keep the maintainer of
gitk, Paul Mackerras [off-list ref], in the loop.