Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The problem is that when you format both patches of a two-commit > repository, `origin` is NULL because there is no commit preceding the > initial commit; the initial commit is the root of the history. Thus, > there is nothing prior to the first patch against which to create a > diffstat. > > I have not investigated, but it may be possible to teach > show_diffstat() how to generate a diffstat against the "emptiness" > preceding the initial commit, but nobody has done so yet. Perhaps this > would be a good project for someone interested in contributing to the > project (or perhaps not -- as mentioned, I haven't investigated how > hard this would be). Yeah, it is like the "--root" option to allow us stop treating a root commit as any special and instead consider it is adding everything it has relative to the empty tree, which sounds like a quite sensible thing to do. Thanks.
