Sergey Organov <sorganov@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> No, I don't mean it. The idea is to let -m be alias for
> "--diff-merges=on -p",...
Ahhhh, that makes a whole lot of difference. Thanks.
> If, on the other hand, it's just me who fundamentally misunderstands the
> design, then I need to be corrected fast, before I make significant
> damage.
No, it was I who was confused, as I somehow incorrectly thoguht that
your plan was to make "-m" identical to "--diff-merges=on".
But if your plan is to make
"git log -m" (no other option)
"git log -m -p"
behave identically to "git log --diff-merges=on -p", and similarly
make
"git log -m --stat"
"git log -m --raw"
behave identically to "git log --diff-merges=on --stat/--raw", I
think that such a design makes quite a lot of sense.
It will still keep the purity of "--diff-merges=<choice>" (that is,
it only is about if/how a merge is expressed in some form of diff),
while solving the longstanding usability issue of "-m" that led to
Alex's "when a user says -m, diff output is expected", that came
quite early in this thread.
