On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > There is another one similar to the gitweb one you mentioned: > git-show --stat on a merge. We deliberately chose to show the > difference from the first parent; it is called "showing the > changes the person who made this merge saw". Well, that one actually makes sense. It's just the stat from the previous state, after all, and it actually is done _together_ with the operation that causes the diffs. So that one I don't think you can really even claim. Also, it's not even the "first parent". Look closer. It's literally "previous state", because it does so for a fast-forward too. It's from ORIG_HEAD. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html