Re: [PATCH 00/26] git-log: implement new --diff-merge options

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 9, 2020, 03:22 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq7dpr4qa0.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BHCtrKAWR1v3OrUgX8iSfxvDwN8p+yiJy=G1BFfnSopjw@mail.gmail.com>

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

> ...  As I said, I'm not sure why
> anyone would ever want to see diffs for merges and not for normal
> commits, the closest useful thing I can imagine is commit messages +
> diffs for just merges, stripping the normal commits.

If I can run "git log --some-options master..next" (or more realistically, over the range ko/next..next) to get individual commits (without patch) and merges (only when --cc gives some interesting nearby-changes), I would be very happy. But is there a set of options that lets me do so?

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