Re: git-show --stat on first commit

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Nov 21, 2006, 18:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20061121180643.GC7201@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611210820100.3338@woody.osdl.org>

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 05:31:30PM CET, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> git didn't end up doing that (and I'm personally pretty happy about it), 
> but it was one of the things I was kind of thinking about: a "git import" 
> kind of thing would have created an initial commit which was pre-populated 
> with the thing to import, and a "git init-db" would have created an 
> initial root commit that was empty.
> 
> That would have made the current "don't show the root diff" behaviour very 
> natural (and you'd still have gotten the initial diff for a new project), 
> but on the other hand, it would have had that annoying unnecessary "init" 
> commit, and you'd _still_ have wanted to have something like "--root" in 
> order to show the import commit as a patch (which you _sometimes_ want to 
> do).

It's being asked by users time by time (first in April last year ;) and I'm not sure about any good answer I should tell them, so is the reason for not doing the implicit empty commit that it would be "annoying" I suppose in the log output?

Is that a reason good enough?

It would solve some of these annoying corner cases nicely, and you can still hide this empty commit from log output etc.

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