Re: git-show --stat on first commit

Andy Parkins wrote:

On Tuesday 2006 November 21 20:03, Jakub Narebski wrote:

quoted

We don't show patch for merges by default in git-show, so I don't
see why we would want to show root commit diff in git-show by default:
those two are very similar.

$ git init-db
$ date > file1
$ git add file1; git commit -a -m "file1 added"
$ date > file2
$ git add file2; git commit -a -m "file2 added"
$ git show --stat HEAD
$ git show --stat HEAD^

I can understand while people get confused.  Two patches, both add a file.  
git-show on one of them shows a stat; on the other it doesn't.

Well, perhaps "git show --stat" should show diffstat also for root
commit, because it shows diffstat for merges (although not patch),
but not patch (which usually is huge).
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Jakub Narebski