Re: Avoiding uninteresting merges in Cairo

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Carl Worth wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:25:30 -0500, Shawn Pearce wrote:

>>  * gitweb made it appear as though a whole lot of Carl's recent
>>    work was somehow undone in the merge.
> 
> That looks like a simple gitweb bug. None of the other tools, (gitk,
> git log -p), consider a trivial merge commit like this as having
> anything interesting in it worth displaying.

It's not a bug, it is rather lack of feature (or misfeature).

Gitweb deals with multiparent commits (merge commits) that it uses
_first_ parent. No special casing merges (like git-show doesn't
show whatchanged/patch for merges), no support for -c/--cc diff
(combined diff format).
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git


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