From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:52:13 GMT
Subject: git log: why are --full-diff and --pickaxe-all separate options?
Message-ID: <76718491003240852m2a2c12afjca2c71f6c78b2047@mail.gmail.com>

I just did this:

$ git log -p -- /some/path

And didn't get the full commit. I know about the --pickaxe-all option,
so I optimistically tried:

$ git log -p --pickaxe-all -- /some/path

Which of course, does not do what I want. Eventually I found in the
man page that I can do this:

$ git log -p --full-diff -- /some/path

But now I wonder why these are separate options. Is there any reason
they shouldn't be unified?

Regardless, perhaps --pickaxe-all without -S and --full-diff without
-p should be errors?

j.