From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:39:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: More on --pretty with git-diff-tree
Message-ID: <7vlk2yep1b.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200804280018.36470.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> By the way, can one choose one of parents to be shown in ''for the
> commit'' mode, or it is only combined (-c, --cc) or all (-m)?

Not without using "diff $C^$N $C", no, I do not think so, and that form
will be two-tree case so you won't get a log.

When you treat all parents as equals, there is no good definition of a
single patch for the commit for a merge.