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Re: git log fails to show all changes for a file

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jul 15, 2015, 19:17 UTC
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> So this is a suggested change to "-p -m" behavior?
>
> Not really.  This is a suggested behaviour for "git log -p"
Oh, in that case I say NAK NAK NAK.
That would be totally horrible, and completely unacceptable.

I do "git log -p" all the time, and merge-diffs with --first-parent are regularly hundreds of thousands of lines for the kernel.

So no. That is COMPLETELY unacceptable. Not even worth discussing.
                   Linus
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