core-tutorial.txt: Fix showing the current behaviour.
The --root option from "git diff-tree" won't do nothing when is given to commands like git-whatchanged or git-log, because those always print the initial commit by default. This fixes the tutorial explaining the function of the log.showroot configuration variable. Signed-off-by: Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Apr 10, 2008 at 02:08 UTC
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@@ -535,18 +535,18 @@ with the associated patches use the more complex (and much more
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-$ git-whatchanged -p --root
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+$ git-whatchanged -p
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and you will see exactly what has changed in the repository over its
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short history.
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[NOTE]
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-The `\--root` flag is a flag to `git-diff-tree` to tell it to
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-show the initial aka 'root' commit too. Normally you'd probably not
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-want to see the initial import diff, but since the tutorial project
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-was started from scratch and is so small, we use it to make the result
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-a bit more interesting.
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+When using the above two commands, the initial commit will be shown.
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+If this is a problem because it is huge, you can hide it by setting
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+the log.showroot configuration variable to false. Having this, you
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+can still show it for each command just adding the `\--root` option,
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+which is a flag for `git-diff-tree` accepted by both commands.
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With that, you should now be having some inkling of what git does, and
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can explore on your own.