Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Peter Baumann wrote: >> >> Why not make --root the default? I also stumbled over this behaviour and >> even asked on this list. > > I suspect we should make the thing a config option, and default it to > "on". > > I personally do _not_ want to see the root commit, because for the kernel, > it's a honking huge import that does not make sense as a "diff". It's not > really a diff against anything, after all - it's an import. > > That's really the reason why git defaults to not showing the root diff at > all: exactly because for the kernel, the initial commit was state that > "just came to be", and I found it both illogical and annoying to see it as > a diff, since that commit really was a "black hole" where previous history > just disappeared. > > But if you have the _full_ history with a new project, "--root" by default > probably makes tons of sense. I agree fully with the above. Let's make it happen. - 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