Re: `git show --oneline commit` does not do what's intuitively expected

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 17, 2017, 04:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20170217040522.jugt4uuak74l3qjw@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CA+-W3ctdRtLpziJ9TX2hqk7RagMyJpHsrfwj=rN7oXQ8EeUPnw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 02:51:36AM +0100, Luna Kid wrote:

> tl;dr; --> Please add --no-diff (or --msg-only) to git show. We'll
> love you for that. :)

I think it is already spelled "--no-patch", or "-s" for short.

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> Please note that "show" is such a profoundly generic command verb,
> probably also used heavily in git, especially to show commits, that it
> comes to mind as second nature, without thinking, as the primary (or
> even as "the only") choice for showing various items in various ways
> -- which, in fact, it already properly does, indeed.

Right. That's what's it for. The DESCRIPTION section of the manpage starts with:

       Shows one or more objects (blobs, trees, tags and commits).

       For commits it shows the log message and textual diff. It also
       presents the merge commit in a special format as produced by git
       diff-tree --cc.

       For tags, it shows[...etc...]

I guess that second paragraph could mention "--no-patch" explicitly to disable it. It's documented in the COMMON DIFF OPTIONS section, but of course there are quite a few options listed, so it's easy to miss.

-Peff