On 04/04/2015 10:00 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Koosha Khajehmoogahi <koosha@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> [kk: wrote commit message] > > Ehh, what exactly did you write ;-)? > > I think the most important thing that needs to be explained by the > log message for this change is that the variable is honored only by > log and it needs to explain why other Porcelain commands in the same > "log" family, like "whatchanged", should ignore the variable. > So, what would be the reason? > I think that we must not to allow format-patch and show to be > affected by this variable, because it is silly if log.merges=only > broke format-patch output or made "git show" silent. But I didn't > think about others. Whoever is doing this change needs to explain > in the log message the reason why it was decided that only "git log" > should pay attention to it. >
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