From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:48:36 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not print header in diff-tree --root unless asked to Message-ID: <7vu09mt4ij.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20060325232807.9146.12846.stgit@machine.or.cz> Petr Baudis writes: > ... git-diff-tree would always return the sha1 of the commit > when --root was passed. I am not sure why this change is needed. The output from "git-diff-tree --root e83c51" (the very initial "git") and "git-diff-tree 8bc9a0" (the second commit) without any other parameters (specifically, there is no '-v') look comparable right now, but I suspect this change would break it.