Re: VCS comparison table
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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- Oct 21, 2006, 01:09 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
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> And "gitweb" does consider the first one special, since it shows diffs > against that one (although I've argued that it probably shouldn't, and > that there should be some way to show branches against arbitrary parents) > > So we're a bit confused. Not that it probably really ever matters.
There is another one similar to the gitweb one you mentioned: git-show --stat on a merge. We deliberately chose to show the difference from the first parent; it is called "showing the changes the person who made this merge saw".