From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-diff-tree --root
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 10:31:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq61gsbv9p.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140912130607.GX4075@isis.sigpipe.cz> (Roman Neuhauser's message of "Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:06:07 +0200")
Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> writes:
> git-diff-tree without --root is absolutely silent for the root commit,
> and i see no bad effects of --root on non-root commits. are there any
> hidden gotchas? IOW, why is the --root behavior not the default?
Because tools that was written before you proposed that change
expect to see nothing for the root commit, and then you are suddenly
breaking their expectations?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-12 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-12 13:06 git-diff-tree --root Roman Neuhauser
2014-09-12 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-09-13 8:57 ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-09-15 17:04 ` Junio C Hamano
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