Re: git-show --stat on first commit

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Peter Baumann wrote:

quoted

Why not make --root the default? I also stumbled over this behaviour and
even asked on this list.

I suspect we should make the thing a config option, and default it to 
"on".

I personally do _not_ want to see the root commit, because for the kernel, 
it's a honking huge import that does not make sense as a "diff". It's not 
really a diff against anything, after all - it's an import.

That's really the reason why git defaults to not showing the root diff at 
all: exactly because for the kernel, the initial commit was state that 
"just came to be", and I found it both illogical and annoying to see it as 
a diff, since that commit really was a "black hole" where previous history 
just disappeared.

But if you have the _full_ history with a new project, "--root" by default 
probably makes tons of sense.

I agree fully with the above.  Let's make it happen.