Re: [RFC] Should "log --cc" imply "log --cc -p"?

> On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 11:16:52AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I don't think that is in the same class. --full-diff is quite useful for
> many other diff formats. E.g.:
>
>   git log --full-diff --raw Makefile
>
> If you are proposing to default to "-p" when "--full-diff" is used but
> no format is given, that is a slightly different thing. The --full-diff
> in such a case is indeed useless, but I do not think it necessarily
> follows that "-p" was what the user wanted.