This has been the default since 170c04383b (Porcelain level "log" family should recurse when diffing., 2007-08-27). There's not even a way to turn it off, so you'd never even want "-r" to override that. It's not the default for plumbing like diff-tree, of course, but the option is documented separately there. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-log.txt | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt index fb3998d8e0..2cbe636b2b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt @@ -146,11 +146,8 @@ below can be used to show the changes made by each commit. in that case, the output represents the changes the merge brought _into_ the then-current branch. --r:: - Show recursive diffs. - -t:: - Show the tree objects in the diff output. This implies `-r`. + Show the tree objects in the diff output. :git-log: 1 include::diff-options.txt[] -- 2.28.0.465.gd2839157e3