Re: git-whatchanged does not show merge result?

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Oct 14, 2005, 17:24 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd5m8rozb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <4dd15d180510140933j7a730c49hb9cdaa98ea0a5b07@mail.gmail.com>

David Ho <davidkwho@gmail.com> writes:

> When I merged back the changes from mybranch, git-whatchanged -p did
> not should the diff of the merge.

You probably mean "git-whatchanged -p -m".

I've seen this question asked at least twice in the past.

    SYNOPSIS
    --------
    'git-whatchanged' <option>...

    DESCRIPTION
    -----------
    Shows commit logs and diff output each commit introduces.  The
    command internally invokes 'git-rev-list' piped to
    'git-diff-tree', and takes command line options for both of
    these commands.

    This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.

Perhaps the frequently used options should include '-m' as well. This part is from git-diff-tree.txt:

    -m::
            By default, "git-diff-tree --stdin" does not show
            differences for merge commits.  With this flag, it shows
            differences to that commit from all of its parents.