Re: git-show --stat on first commit

From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 23, 2006, 09:25 UTC
Message-ID: <200611230925.07821.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ejvlv9$781$1@sea.gmane.org>

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

> 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.

Andy

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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE