From: Paul Mackerras Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:53:27 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] gitk: Teach gitk to respect log.showroot Message-ID: <20120318225327.GA26977@bloggs.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20111004200813.GA16596@kennedy.acc.umu.se> On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 10:08:13PM +0200, Marcus Karlsson wrote: > Teach gitk to respect log.showroot. > +set log_showroot true > +catch { > + set log_showroot [exec git config --get log.showroot] > +} Since I mostly use gitk on the kernel, I'd prefer that log_showroot defaults to false if it isn't specified in the git config file. Defaulting to false would also be the smaller change in gitk behaviour. Paul.