I see, it makes sense ;-) Indeed it would seem logical to have all commands showing diffs (diff, add -p, log -p, reset -p, etc..) respect the diff options. Thanks for your quick answer! 2016-06-14 23:45 GMT+02:00 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Nobody noticed so far because originally the compaction heuristic was on >> by default, and so just worked everywhere. But we backed off on that at >> the last minute after finding a few cases where the diff looks worse. > > Yup, and that is why this is called "experimental" in the release > notes ;-) -- 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