Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] making log --first-parent imply -m

From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 7, 2020, 21:08 UTC
Message-ID: <87y2mqjh9f.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqv9hufaxc.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I had no intention to introduce --diff-parents, at least for now, and
>> maybe never. What I said about it was theoretical discussion rather than
>> actual proposal.
>>
>> If we agree on the above, I intended to instead propose something like:
>>
>> --diff-merges=first-parent or just =first
>
> OK, so the combined, combined-dense and split were meant to work
> with all the parents, and off is the only one that means comparison
> with no parents.  That makes sense.

Yeah, exactly, thanks!

The only question regarding it I then have for now is what are preferences for names selection inside single option? Abbreviated yet somewhat sensible, or verbose? I mean:

--diff-merges=first vs --diff-merges=first-parent

--diff-merges=comb vs --diff-merges=combined

etc. What's better?

Thanks, -- Sergey