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Re: frustrated forensics: hard to find diff that undid a fix

From
Adam Monsen <haircut@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 5, 2011, 14:34 UTC
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Jakub Narebski wrote:
> By default "git log -p" and "git show" considers merges uninteresting.
> Try "git log -p -c" or "git log -p -m".
Holy cow, that's a lifesaver! Thank you, Jakub!!

I totally missed the whole "Diff Formatting" section in the git-log(1) manpage.

"git log -p -c" does exactly what I want. I'll make an alias or something for these options.

I'm confused by this section of git-log(1):
  COMBINED DIFF FORMAT
    "git-diff-tree", "git-diff-files" and "git-diff" can take -c
    or --cc option to produce combined diff. For showing a merge
    commit with "git log -p", this is the default format; you can
    force showing full diff with the -m option.

Sounds like this is saying that -c is the default with "git log -p". I'll submit a patch to fix that.

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Message 6 of 26 in “frustrated forensics: hard to find diff that undid a fix”
  1. Adam MonsenMar 5, 2011
  2. Jonathan del StrotherMar 5, 2011
  3. Jakub NarebskiMar 5, 2011
  4. Jonathan NiederMar 5, 2011
  5. Jeff KingMar 5, 2011
  6. Adam MonsenMar 5, 2011
  7. 0/2 improve combined diff documentationAdam Monsen, Mar 5, 2011
  8. 1/2 documentation fix: git log -p does not imply -c.Adam Monsen, Mar 5, 2011
  9. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2011
  10. Jeff KingMar 7, 2011
  11. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2011
  12. Jeff KingMar 7, 2011
  13. Documentation fix: git log -p does not imply -c.Adam Monsen, Mar 7, 2011
  14. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2011
  15. Documentation fix: git log -p does not imply -c.Adam Monsen, Mar 8, 2011
  16. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2011
  17. Adam MonsenMar 8, 2011
  18. Junio C HamanoMar 9, 2011
  19. Adam MonsenMar 9, 2011
  20. SubmittingPatches: clean up commit message tipsAdam Monsen, Mar 9, 2011
  21. Junio C HamanoMar 9, 2011
  22. diff format documentation: clarify --cc and -cAdam Monsen, Mar 8, 2011
  23. diff format documentation: clarify --cc and -cAdam Monsen, Mar 8, 2011
  24. Jeff KingMar 8, 2011
  25. 2/2 English grammar fixes for combined diff doc.Adam Monsen, Mar 5, 2011
  26. Martin von ZweigbergkMar 5, 2011

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