From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:21:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] making log --first-parent imply -m
Message-ID: <xmqqy2mvve65.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <87pn87smw3.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Sounds great, I only hoped we can do it right now, with this new
>>> --diff-merges option, maybe as a pre-requisite to the patches in
>>> question, but Jeff said it's too late, dunno why.
>>
>> A follow-up patch or two to remove the "--diff-merges" option and
>> add the "--diff-parents=(none|<number>|c|cc|all)" option on top of
>> the jk/log-fp-implies-m topic BEFORE it graduates to 'master' is a
>> possibility.
>>
>> But is it worth the delay?  I dunno.
>
> I don't think it's worth the delay, provided yet another new
> --diff-parents is to be implemented rather that using --diff-merges for
> that.

I was responding to your "it's too late, dunno why", as you seemed
not to want to waste an option "--diff-merges" that will become
unused when "--diff-parents" come and also wanted it to happen right
now.  If you no longer want to see it happen right now, that's OK by
me.