Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > However I sometimes also get: > sb@sb:~/OSS/git$ git show --format="%ad" 0da7a53 > Fri Jul 12 10:49:34 2013 -0700 > > diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt > b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt > index 0e50df8..4250e5a 100644 > --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt > +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt "git show" will show the diff by default. For merge commits, it shows the --cc diff which is often empty, hence the behavior you see. You want to use "git show -s", which suppresses the patch output. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html