From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:09:52 GMT
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Message-ID: <7vy7rajwyn.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610201702580.3962@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> 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".