From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 03:31:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/26] git-log: implement new --diff-merge options
Message-ID: <CABPp-BHWhiUZ=wCSz1f0oxtHiRzAKCPVmoUYDf+mvvm63ykCEw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7dpr4qa0.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 7:22 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > ...  As I said, I'm not sure why
> > anyone would ever want to see diffs for merges and not for normal
> > commits, the closest useful thing I can imagine is commit messages +
> > diffs for just merges, stripping the normal commits.
>
> If I can run "git log --some-options master..next" (or more
> realistically, over the range ko/next..next) to get individual
> commits (without patch) and merges (only when --cc gives some
> interesting nearby-changes), I would be very happy.  But is there a
> set of options that lets me do so?

So, you're saying you changed your mind since five years ago?[1]  Or
that what you said five years ago is still valid, but you'd appreciate
more/different options that allow this new thing?

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/1440110591-12941-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com/

We got to this point in this thread because Sergey suggested reverting
the above change (as one option) in order to bring more consistency
between -m and -c/--cc.