On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:56:58PM -0000, Philip Oakley wrote: > >This is by design. Git-log does not calculate or show merge diffs > >unless > >"-c" or "--cc" is specified, and thus no diff-filter can match. > > This is hard to discern from the log(1) man page as this conflates > commit inclusion (limiting?) with the diff formatting. > > The -c and -cc options are listed in the diff formatting section, but > that's well down the man page. Even then, the note for the options doesn't > say that it will cause the log output to now include the merge commits. Merge commits are always considered. But we don't show merge _diffs_ without "-c" or "--cc". And they cannot match a diff-filter if we don't calculate the diffs. That being said, I can certainly imagine there is room for improvement in the documentation. The --diff-filter option is in the "diff options" section, but perhaps the top of that section might want to make special mention of "-c" and "--cc"? -Peff -- 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