From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:55:27 GMT
Subject: Re: What should I use instead of git show?
Message-ID: <7vmzftq4r4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <4415FFB8.3000001@comcast.net>

Mark Hollomon <markhollomon@comcast.net> writes:

> I must be misunderstanding this:
>
> 	git whatchanged -p -1 HEAD
>
> in the current git tree results in nothing. only when I get to -5 does it show something.
>
> Is this expected?
>
>> git version
> git version 1.2.4.gea75

In this case what matterks is not the version of your git but
what that HEAD is.  If it is a merge commit, whatchanged -p does
not show anything by default.