Re: git log -p unexpected behaviour - security risk?

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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> By the way, these options are _not_ about "showing merge commits
>> that introduce code", and they do not help your kind of "security".
>> As I repeatedly said, you would need "-p -m" for that.
>
> Actually, while defaulting to --cc may be convenient, it would indeed
> increase the security risk: currently, "git log -p" shows nothing for
> merges, so it's rather clear that _everything_ is omitted. With --cc,
> the user would see a diff, and could hardly guess that not everything is
> shown without reading the doc very carefully.

I don't believe it's that clear.  I bet people assume there's nothing
to show, and unless you dig in and discover that `-p` doesn't include
merges.  In git 1.8.2, `git help log` doesn't seem to make any mention
of `-p` not showing a diff for merges.

Just to see, I asked several people around here whether they knew `-p`
didn't show diffs for merges, and they were all surprised that diffs
were being omitted for merge commits.

-John
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