Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] making log --first-parent imply -m

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 7, 2020, 19:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20200807192001.GA1308960@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <87tuxel17m.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 10:12:29PM +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:

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> I thought it's just a -c, -cc, and -m in better wording. No any
> matrix:
> 
> -c  = --diff-merges=combined
> -cc = --diff-merges=dense
> -m  = --diff-merges=split
> 
> Just separate mutually exclusive options assembled into one multi-value
> option, so it's explicit they are mutually exclusive. I don't see any
> matrix here.

FWIW, those names make sense to me. Coupled with "none" or "off" for disabling all of them.

-Peff

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