Re: git-show --stat on first commit

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

Peter Baumann wrote:

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On 2006-11-21, Santi Béjar [off-list ref] wrote:

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On 11/21/06, Andy Parkins [off-list ref] wrote:

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In general the initial commit diff (or stat) is hidden, but perhaps it
make sense to show it in "git show", you asked fo this specifically.

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

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In my opinion this will help new users which are supprised that they
can't get the diff of the inital commit (which is totaly non-intuitiv
behavior).

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And one less "wart" to clean, which another thread is all about. :-)

Count me in! A freshly created repo should be just empty, not some strange
construction that isn't a real repo. The empty set /is/ real useful, you
know. Even if it is just for symmetry.

Because for projects imported into git first commit diff is huge,
and not very interesting.

That isn't your call to make. Sure, if I just untarred something large and
gitified it, I /know/ the diff to "before" is huge, and not really
informative, and I'll abstain from asking for it. But if I just started a
project with a half dozen files, I'd like to see what came before, or look
at the difference to "5 commits back" (which just happens to be every
change, as there are 4 commits in all).

The main focus here is on large(ish) projects with a lot of history, but if
you want to be able to get some mindshare you will have to look at the
other end, projects just getting off the ground.
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