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> Peter Baumann wrote:
>
>> On 2006-11-21, Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 11/21/06, Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure this one will be known about already. git-show --stat on the the
>>>> first commit doesn't show anything. I assume it's because git-diff-tree has
>>>> nothing to diff against (although shouldn't that be an everything-new diff?).
>>>>
>>>> Given the above; does anyone have a suggestion for what I could use as a
>>>> replacement? Even just a list of the new files would be useful.
>
> You can always use git-ls-tree
>
>>> $ git show --stat --root
>>>
>>> In general the initial commit diff (or stat) is hidden, but perhaps it
>>> make sense to show it in "git show", you asked fo this specifically.
>>
>> Why not make --root the default? I also stumbled over this behaviour and
>> even asked on this list.
>>
>> In my opinion this will help new users which are supprised that they
>> can't get the diff of the inital commit (which is totaly non-intuitiv behavior).
>>
>> And one less "wart" to clean, which another thread is all about. :-)
>
> Because for projects imported into git first commit diff is huge,
> and not very interesting. By the way, git show by default doesn't show
> diff for merges (you need --cc for that), nor rename detection (you need
> -M for that).
>
> But you can always set default diff-tree options, including --root, --cc
> and -M in the show.difftree configuration variable (either in repo config,
> or in user config). It is IMHO better solution than changing defaults.