Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] making log --first-parent imply -m

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 7, 2020, 20:39 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqv9hufaxc.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <87a6z6kxmm.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:

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> I had no intention to introduce --diff-parents, at least for now, and
> maybe never. What I said about it was theoretical discussion rather than
> actual proposal.
>
> If we agree on the above, I intended to instead propose something like:
>
> --diff-merges=first-parent or just =first

OK, so the combined, combined-dense and split were meant to work with all the parents, and off is the only one that means comparison with no parents. That makes sense.

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