Koosha Khajehmoogahi <koosha@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> This patch adds a 'showmerges' config. option for git-log.
> This option determines whether the log should contain merge
> commits or not. In essence, if this option is set to false,
> git-log will be run as 'git-log --no-merges'.
>
> To force git-log to show merges even if 'log.showmerges' is
> set, we use --include-merges command line option.
Yuck.
I agree that there is currently no way to revert the setting that is
touched by --merges and --no-merges back to the default, but I think
the right way to fix that is by streamlining these two options,
instead of piling yet another kludge --include-merges on top.
When we think about possible "canned" selection modes:
(do we show merge commits?) * (do we show non-merge commits?)
we have four combinations. Answering the above two questions with
No/No would end up showing nothing, which is meaningless, so that
leaves us three choices (of course, the user could choose to futz
directly with min/max-parents to select only Octopus merges, but
that is a more advanced/exotic usage).
Wouldn't it make more sense to spell which selection mode the user
wants with:
git log --merges=<selection-mode>
by naming the three meaningful selection modes with short and sweet
names? Perhaps
default? show? both? -- show both merge commits and non-merge commits
only -- show only merge commits
skip -- show only non-merge commits
or something?
Now, as I always say, I am not great at naming things, so do not
take these names as the final suggestion, but I think you got the
idea.
Of course, then the traditional "--merges" option can be kept as a
short-hand for "--merges=only", and "--no-merges" would become a
short-hand for "--merges=skip".
Once we have done that streamlining of the command line options, it
will naturally follow that "log.merges = show | only | skip" would
be a useful configuration option.
I doubt we need an extra bit in rev_info to implement such a syntax
sugar.
> diff --git a/revision.h b/revision.h
> index 0ea8b4e..f496472 100644
> --- a/revision.h
> +++ b/revision.h
> @@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ struct rev_info {
> unsigned int track_linear:1,
> track_first_time:1,
> linear:1;
> + unsigned int force_show_merges:1;
>
> enum date_mode date_mode;
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