Re: git-show --stat on first commit

[Peter Baumann <Peter.B.Baumann@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>]

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.
>
> $ 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.
>
> Santi

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. :-)

Peter