From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:12:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug in "git show"?
Message-ID: <vpqa9lof2e4.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <51E3DC47.70107@googlemail.com>

Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com> writes:

> However I sometimes also get:
> sb@sb:~/OSS/git$ git show --format="%ad" 0da7a53
> Fri Jul 12 10:49:34 2013 -0700
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
> b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
> index 0e50df8..4250e5a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt

"git show" will show the diff by default. For merge commits, it shows
the --cc diff which is often empty, hence the behavior you see.

You want to use "git show -s", which suppresses the patch output.

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Matthieu Moy
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