From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:27:56 GMT
Subject: Re: log -p hides changes in merge commit
Message-ID: <7vk4ig5uib.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D276926.2020407@cfl.rr.com>

Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> writes:

> That does help me understand the difference between -c and -cc, but I
> still don't see why one or the other is not the default behavior of log
> -p, instead of opting to never show anything at all for merges?

Assuming this is about the default, the answer is very simple.  The
features to support -c and --cc came _much_ later than -p, and many people
have got used to the default behaviour after using "log -p" for a long
time.  It simply is rude to change the default on them.

As -c or --cc won't do anything special on a non-merge commit, you can
always say "log -p --cc" if that output is what you want to see.