From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 19:17:28 GMT
Subject: Re: git log fails to show all changes for a file
Message-ID: <CA+55aFyMq1VjFcpa4kAy9XBuntHWr-aCeKr9JdxuK5kt=Z1pRw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtwt5wai9.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

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