gitk: Teach gitk to respect log.showroot

In early days, all projects managed by git (except for git itself) had the
product of a fairly mature development history in their first commit, and
it was deemed unnecessary clutter to show additions of these thousands of
paths as a patch.

"git log" learned to show the patch for the initial commit without requiring
--root command line option at 0f03ca9 (config option log.showroot to show
the diff of root commits, 2006-11-23).

Teach gitk to respect log.showroot.

[paulus@samba.org: Cleaned up the Tcl a bit, use --bool on the
 git config call]

Signed-off-by: Marcus Karlsson <mk@acc.umu.se>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gitk b/gitk
index d06749206..651b74004 100755
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk
@@ -7476,7 +7476,7 @@ proc addtocflist {ids} {
 }
 
 proc diffcmd {ids flags} {
-    global nullid nullid2
+    global log_showroot nullid nullid2
 
     set i [lsearch -exact $ids $nullid]
     set j [lsearch -exact $ids $nullid2]
@@ -7510,6 +7510,9 @@ proc diffcmd {ids flags} {
 	    lappend cmd HEAD
 	}
     } else {
+	if {$log_showroot} {
+	    lappend flags --root
+	}
 	set cmd [concat | git diff-tree -r $flags $ids]
     }
     return $cmd
@@ -11559,6 +11562,11 @@ catch {
     }
 }
 
+set log_showroot true
+catch {
+    set log_showroot [exec git config --bool --get log.showroot]
+}
+
 if {[tk windowingsystem] eq "aqua"} {
     set mainfont {{Lucida Grande} 9}
     set textfont {Monaco 9}