From: Henning Moll <newsscott@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:47:03 GMT
Subject: [RFC] git-log should use the same diff-options as git-show
Message-ID: <loom.20160318T222303-528@post.gmane.org>

Hi

Recently i stumbled upon an old stash entry. It was clear to me that the
stash only contained non-indexed worktree changes. So i assumed to get
insight by doing

    $ git log -1 -p stash@{0}

But surprisingly the result was "no patch" (The problem which i was not
aware at that time was the fact that a stash commit is a merge). So i asked
a question on stackoverflow (1) an learned that there are different default
options used depending on the git command used:

    $ git show stash@{0}
    $ git diff stash@{0}^..stash@{0}

work with default, but for git-log i need to 

    $ git log -1 -p --cc stash@{0}

to make it behave the same. This does not seem reasonable to me, though i
read about commit 1aec791 (2) in git's own repository. What do you think?

Maybe - as a compromise - just show any kind of hint instead of nothing?

Best regards
Henning

(1) -
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36089674/git-log-1-p-stash0-shows-empty-patch
(2) -
https://git.kaarsemaker.net/git/commit/1aec7917dc52901c6df301ddc8fea70f5ce0db09/