Re: [PATCH] gitweb: [commit view] Do not suppress commitdiff link in root commit

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 12:00:29PM CEST, I got a letter
where Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> said that...
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> > 
> >> There's no reason for that, the commitdiff view is meaningful for the
> >> root commit as well and we link to it everywhere else.
> > 
> > It probably is not any more useful than the blob view but I
> > agree there is no strong reason to supress it, as long as the
> > commitdiff page is prepared to show the root commit (which I
> > haven't checked -- if you have --root you should be Ok).
> 
> The commitdiff for root commit is much less useful, I think, and not having
> commitdiff link serves as indicator of root (parentless) commit, important
> in non-commit views. 

  But we don't shor commitdiff _only_ (afaics) in the commit view. ;-)
So it doesn't indicate anything anyway.

  I personally don't mind looking at mass-addition patches (something
looking at Debian package diffs teaches you), and it's a quick way to
see all the files being added to the tree, not browse them blob-by-blob.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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