Re: git-show --stat on first commit

> On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Peter Baumann wrote:
>> 
>> Why not make --root the default? I also stumbled over this behaviour and
>> even asked on this list.
>
> I suspect we should make the thing a config option, and default it to 
> "on".
>
> I personally do _not_ want to see the root commit, because for the kernel, 
> it's a honking huge import that does not make sense as a "diff". It's not 
> really a diff against anything, after all - it's an import.
>
> That's really the reason why git defaults to not showing the root diff at 
> all: exactly because for the kernel, the initial commit was state that 
> "just came to be", and I found it both illogical and annoying to see it as 
> a diff, since that commit really was a "black hole" where previous history 
> just disappeared.
>
> But if you have the _full_ history with a new project, "--root" by default 
> probably makes tons of sense.