Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... I guess I'm not sure why one would ever > want to see diffs for merges and not for normal commits. Even in the > unusual case someone did, couldn't they just pass --merges (to strip > out the normal commits entirely)? Giving "--merges" would skip the single-strand-of-pearls commits entirely, not even showing their log messages, so it won't be an equivalent substitute. > Honestly, I find it a little surprising that despite the fact that log > -p shows nothing for merge commits, that when I add --first-parent to > see a subset of commits I suddenly get weird, huge diffs shown for the > merges (yeah, yeah, I learned recently that it's documented behavior, > so it's not surprising anymore, just weird). I view "--first-parent" as telling "git log" to pretend all merges are single-parent commits (as if you did squash merges), and it is a natural consequence if "log --first-parent -p" showed each commit with its first parent, whether it is a merge or a single-parent commit.
