Re: Re Behavior of git log --diff-filter=d

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jul 3, 2025, 15:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20250703153611.GB1309870@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20250703134220.31638-1-jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 07:12:20PM +0530, K Jayatheerth wrote:

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> Yes, this is expected behavior
> You're seeing a difference because
> 
> --diff-filter=d tells Git to exclude commits that have deleted files in their diffs.
> However, this filter only applies if there is a diff to filter.

I don't think that is true. Even if we are not showing a diff, we'll select which commits to show based on diff options (and show only those that still touch something). That's why "--diff-filter=D" shows only the commit with the deletion. With the "d" filter we should omit deletions, leaving the second commit with no changes (and thus not shown).

-Peff