Re: Bug in "git show"?

From: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Date: Jul 15, 2013, 12:23 UTC
Message-ID: <51E3E9D6.4070201@googlemail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqa9lof2e4.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

On 07/15/2013 02:12 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com> writes:
> 
>> However I sometimes also get:
>> sb@sb:~/OSS/git$ git show --format="%ad" 0da7a53
>> Fri Jul 12 10:49:34 2013 -0700
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
>> b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
>> index 0e50df8..4250e5a 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
> 
> "git show" will show the diff by default. For merge commits, it shows
> the --cc diff which is often empty, hence the behavior you see.
> 
> You want to use "git show -s", which suppresses the patch output.
>

Thanks, that's exactly what I am looking for. Stefan

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