From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:16:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Should "log --cc" imply "log --cc -p"?
Message-ID: <CACBZZX7FJ39sereptAQ40Q4MwEpf15v0H=++WvB7+BpMknxoYw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vfw1c3ujo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "git log/diff-files -U8" do not need "-p" to enable textual patches,
> for example.  It is "I already told you that I want 8-line context.
> For what else, other than showing textual diff, do you think I told
> you that for?" and replacing "8-line context" with various other
> options that affect patch generation will give us a variety of end
> user complaints that would tell us that C) is more intuitive to
> them.

On a related note I think "--full-diff" should imply "-p" too.