From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:47:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] documentation fix: git log -p does not imply -c.
Message-ID: <20110307154712.GA11934@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vbp1n4vhv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 04:36:28PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Adam Monsen <haircut@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Relates to the thread with subject "frustrated forensics: hard to find
> > diff that undid a fix" on the git mailing list.
> >
> > 	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/168481
> >
> > I don't wish for anyone to repeat my bungled forensics episode.
> 
> But this patch is wrong, isn't it?
> 
> The --cc format _is_ the default, not -c format.

Hmm. "git show" seems to show --cc, but "git log -p" does not show
anything. Try:

  $ git show 1538f21
  $ git log -p -1 1538f21

So the current doc seems to be wrong. Should we be fixing the code and
not the doc?

-Peff