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| author | Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> | 2021-05-21 00:47:03 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-05-21 09:24:14 +0900 |
| commit | f5bfcc823ba242a46e20fb6f71c9fbf7ebb222fe (patch) | |
| tree | 32e15a125af7d7ed46dd4300533e7702dca3170e /Documentation/diff-options.txt | |
| parent | fd16a39944ce2f2967ed015379f5bd05bac639bb (diff) | |
| download | git-f5bfcc823ba242a46e20fb6f71c9fbf7ebb222fe.tar.gz | |
diff-merges: let "-m" imply "-p"
Fix long standing inconsistency between -c/--cc that do imply -p on
one side, and -m that did not imply -p on the other side.
Change corresponding test accordingly, as "log -m" output should now
match one from "log -m -p", rather than from just "log".
Change documentation accordingly.
NOTES:
After this patch
git log -m
produces diffs without need to provide -p as well, that improves both
consistency and usability. It gets even more useful if one sets
"log.diffMerges" configuration variable to "first-parent" to force -m
produce usual diff with respect to first parent only.
This patch, however, does not change behavior when specific diff
format is explicitly provided on the command-line, so that commands
like
git log -m --raw
git log -m --stat
are not affected, nor does it change commands where specific diff
format is active by default, such as:
git diff-tree -m
It's also worth to be noticed that exact historical semantics of -m is
still provided by --diff-merges=separate.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/diff-options.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 6d968b9012..2825783049 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -49,10 +49,9 @@ ifdef::git-log[] --diff-merges=m::: -m::: This option makes diff output for merge commits to be shown in - the default format. `-m` will produce the output only if `-p` - is given as well. The default format could be changed using + the default format. The default format could be changed using `log.diffMerges` configuration parameter, which default value - is `separate`. + is `separate`. `-m` implies `-p`. + --diff-merges=first-parent::: --diff-merges=1::: @@ -62,7 +61,8 @@ ifdef::git-log[] --diff-merges=separate::: This makes merge commits show the full diff with respect to each of the parents. Separate log entry and diff is generated - for each parent. + for each parent. This is the format that `-m` produced + historically. + --diff-merges=combined::: --diff-merges=c::: |