From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 20:36:39 GMT
Subject: Re: merges and git log --stat
Message-ID: <20100506203639.GV4599@neumann>
In-Reply-To: <7vsk64hjq4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

That was fast, thank you.

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 01:13:23PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> writes:
> 
> > I've just noticed that 'git log --stat' does not print the diffstat
> > for merge commits.  Is this intentional?
> 
> It's very much designed so.  You cannot clearly define "diff from which
> parent you would want to see".

I see.  Perhaps it would make sense to show the diffstat from the
point of view of the first parent, but maybe I'm biased by my current
use case.  Anyway, it seems that I can easily get what I need with a
bit of scripting, so it's not a major issue.

Best,
Gábor