Re: [PATCH 6/6] diff-merges: let -m imply -p

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: May 20, 2021, 18:50 UTC
Message-ID: <YKaverOKIAJpJl3s@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <87v97dfsyg.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

Sergey Organov wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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>> This is about "log" from the "rev-list" family, not "diff" to
>> compare two endpoints, so "git diff" won't be affected, and "git
>> diff-tree" is not affected, either.
>
> You are right. I've added a test for "git diff-tree -m", and the changes
> don't break it.

Good.

> Can easily re-roll if you think the test worth it.

I care more about the commit message than the test --- i.e. mentioning that this doesn't affect commands like

	git rev-list HEAD~5..HEAD | git diff-tree --stdin -m

Thanks, Jonathan

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