From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 22:50:48 GMT
Subject: Re: diff-index --cc no longer permitted, gitk is now broken (slightly)
Message-ID: <xmqqzgscqgmv.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <874kaki1nb.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm not sure I follow. What "show -p" has to do with "diff-index --cc"?
>
> My only point here is that usage of *--cc* in *diff-index* is entirely
> undocumneted, and that needs to be somehow resolved.

It was a response to your "historical status quo that is a problem."
I do not think there is any problem with "diff-index --cc" (except
for it wants a better documentation---but that we already agree) but
I wanted to give you some credit for having worked on "--diff-merges",
an effort to generalize things in a related area.