From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2020 20:39:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] making log --first-parent imply -m
Message-ID: <xmqqv9hufaxc.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <87a6z6kxmm.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.