Re: [PATCH v2] gitk: Show patch for initial commit

Marcus Karlsson [off-list ref] writes:

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Also the gitk should be mentioned in the man-page for git-config log.showroot.
The current description of this option seems suboptimal because it explains
how it used to be, which is not really relevant:
  log.showroot
    If true, the initial commit will be shown as a big creation event. This is
    equivalent to a diff against an empty tree. Tools like git-log(1) or git-
    whatchanged(1), which normally hide the root commit will now show it. True by
    default.
This could be changed to:
    If true (the default), the root commit will be shown as a big creation
    event --- a diff against an empty tree. This diff can be very large for
    a project which was imported into git after some development history.
    If log.showroot is false tools like git-log(1), git-whatchanged(1), or
    gitk(1) will not display the added files.

I agree, but that feels like something that could be made into a
separate patch. Or should I include that too?

Please make it a separate patch. A patch to Documentation/config.txt
should go to git.git project, but gitk patch (whose "diff --git" line
should read "diff --git a/gitk b/gitk") should go first to gitk.git
project and then merged to my tree.