Hi, Our team just struggled with this problem, and I've created a simple, 3 commit large, example git repository to demonstrate the problem: https://github.com/johnflux/ExampleEvilness2 The code: Adds a file, adds a security fix commit, then removes the fix during a merge. This happened by accident in our code during a merge, but nobody noticed, and it was not easy to track down. In this example, you can see that the security fix was removed by doing: $ git log -m -p However the following do NOT show that the security fix was removed: $ git log -m -p . $ git log -m -p tmp.c $ git log -c -p tmp.c And so on. In a large code base, this a problem. John -- 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