> 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.
... and this "git show -s" is extraordinarily hard to discover, as it
is only documented in "git log --help". Google has been my friend
here, but we should really improve that.
This patch series does essentially two things:
* Add a --no-patch synonym for -s. I'm actually wondering why the
option wasn't called this way from the beginning.
* Reorganize the doc so that "git show" actually mentions it.
While we're there, there's a reformatting patch, and one to make "git
log --no-patch --patch" actually show the patch.
(60aa9cf8f3, Documentation: document show -s, Tue Nov 9 11:12:48 2010
actually acknowledged that the documentation wasn't complete and that
something else was needed, this should be it)
Matthieu Moy (5):
diff: allow --no-patch as synonym for -s
diff: allow --patch to override -s/--no-patch
Documentation/git-show.txt: include common diff options, like
git-log.txt
Documentation: move description of -s, --no-patch to diff-options.txt
Documentation/git-log.txt: capitalize section names
Documentation/diff-options.txt | 5 +++++
Documentation/git-log.txt | 8 ++++----
Documentation/git-show.txt | 9 +++++++++
Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 3 ---
diff.c | 7 ++++---
5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
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1.8.3.1.495.g13f33cf.dirty
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