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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-10-15 23:49:27 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-10-15 23:49:27 -0700
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parenttutorial: update the initial commit example. (diff)
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whatchanged: document -m option from git-diff-tree.
The documentation for git-whatchanged is meant to describe only the most frequently used options from git-diff-tree. Because "why doesn't it show merges" was asked more than once, we'd better describe '-m' option there. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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@@ -44,6 +44,13 @@ OPTIONS
<format> can be one of 'raw', 'medium', 'short', 'full',
and 'oneline'.
+-m::
+ By default, differences for merge commits are not shown.
+ With this flag, show differences to that commit from all
+ of its parents.
+
+ However, it is not very useful in general, although it
+ *is* useful on a file-by-file basis.
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