Hi Peff, On Fri, 8 Mar 2019, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 04:38:44PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 Mar 2019, Jeff King wrote: > > > > > When "-L" is in use, we ignore any diff output format that the user > > > provides to us, and just always print a patch (with extra context lines > > > covering the whole area of interest). It's not entirely clear what we > > > should do with all formats (e.g., should "--stat" show just the diffstat > > > of the touched lines, or the stat for the whole file?). > > > > > > But "-s" is pretty clear: the user probably wants to see just the > > > commits that touched those lines, without any diff at all. Let's at > > > least make that work. > > > > Agree. The patch looks obviously good. > > Thanks. This leaves the other formats as silently ignored. I'd be fine with that... but... > Do we want to do something like this: > > diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c > index eb8e51bc63..a1b4fe2aa6 100644 > --- a/revision.c > +++ b/revision.c > @@ -2689,6 +2689,10 @@ int setup_revisions(int argc, const char **argv, struct rev_info *revs, struct s > if (revs->first_parent_only && revs->bisect) > die(_("--first-parent is incompatible with --bisect")); > > + if (revs->line_level_traverse && > + (revs->diffopt.output_format & ~(DIFF_FORMAT_PATCH|DIFF_FORMAT_NO_OUTPUT))) > + die(_("-L does not yet support diff formats besides -p and -s")); > + > if (revs->expand_tabs_in_log < 0) > revs->expand_tabs_in_log = revs->expand_tabs_in_log_default; Since you already have that patch, why not go wild and apply it, too? ;-) I guess you copy-edited the code from somewhere because you usually do leave spaces around the `|`... I don't care, though ;-) Ciao, Dscho