Re: [PATCH v4] log,diff-tree: add --combined-all-names option

>
> Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
>
> There is one place that says combined-all-paths, and everywhere else
> it says combined-all-names.  The former is probably techincally more
> correct, I think ;-)

> > The combined diff format for merges will only list one filename, even if
> > rename or copy detection is active.  For example, with raw format one
> > might see:
> >
> >   ::100644 100644 100644 fabadb8 cc95eb0 4866510 MM   describe.c
> >   ::100755 100755 100755 52b7a2d 6d1ac04 d2ac7d7 RM   bar.sh
> >   ::100644 100644 100644 e07d6c5 9042e82 ee91881 RR   phooey.c
> >
> > This doesn't let us know what the original name of bar.sh was in the
> > first parent, and doesn't let us know what either of the original names
> > of phooey.c were in either of the parents.  In contrast, for non-merge
> > commits, raw format does provide original filenames (and a rename score
> > to boot).  In order to also provide original filenames for merge
> > commits, add a --combined-all-names option (which must be used with
> > either -c or --cc, and is likely only useful with rename or copy
> > detection active) so that we can print tab-separated filenames when
> > renames are involved.  This transforms the above output to:
> >
> >   ::100644 100644 100644 fabadb8 cc95eb0 4866510 MM   desc.c  desc.c  desc.c
> >   ::100755 100755 100755 52b7a2d 6d1ac04 d2ac7d7 RM   foo.sh  bar.sh  bar.sh
> >   ::100644 100644 100644 e07d6c5 9042e82 ee91881 RR   fooey.c fuey.c  phooey.c
> >
> > Further, in patch format, this changes the from/to headers so that
> > instead of just having one "from" header, we get one for each parent.
> > For example, instead of having
> >
> >   --- a/phooey.c
> >   +++ b/phooey.c
> >
> > we would see
> >
> >   --- a/fooey.c
> >   --- a/fuey.c
> >   +++ b/phooey.c
>
> Do we have the three "rename from fooey.c", "rename from fuey.c" and
> "rename to "phooey.c" extended headers, too?  That's what I meant in
> my response, but I do like what I see in the above example ;-)