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authorLibravatar Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>2021-05-21 00:47:03 +0300
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-05-21 09:24:14 +0900
commitf5bfcc823ba242a46e20fb6f71c9fbf7ebb222fe (patch)
tree32e15a125af7d7ed46dd4300533e7702dca3170e /Documentation
parentdiff-merges: rename "combined_imply_patch" to "merges_imply_patch" (diff)
downloadtgif-f5bfcc823ba242a46e20fb6f71c9fbf7ebb222fe.tar.xz
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')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-options.txt8
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:::