Re: [PATCH] config option core.showroot to enable showing the diff of the root commit

> Peter Baumann <Peter.B.Baumann@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
> writes:
>
>> This allows one to see the root commit as a diff in commands like git-log,
>> git-show and git-whatchanged. It also modifies git-diff-tree to act as --root
>> was specified on the commandline. The default is set to true.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Baumann <Peter.B.Baumannn@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
>> ---
>> I'm not sure if making core.showroot acting on git-diff-tree is the
>> right thing to do. Please check first bevore applying.
>
> I agree that this "use --root by default" belongs to Porcelain
> layer, not the plumbing.  We would probably want to do this in
> the same way as we do the color in diff.c::git_diff_ui_config().
>