"diff-tree --stdin" has been broken for about a year, but 2.36
release broke it even worse by breaking running the command with
<pathspec>, which in turn broke "gitk" and got noticed. This has
been corrected by aligning its behaviour to that of "log".
This fixes a regression in 2.36 and is slate to go to 2.36.1
source: <xmqq7d7bsu2n.fsf@gitster.g>