Sergey Organov <sorganov@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Fix long standing inconsistency between -c/--cc that do imply -p, on > one side, and -m that did not imply -p, on the other side. > > After this patch > > git log -m > > will start to produce diffs without need to provide -p as well, that > improves both consistency and usability. It gets even more useful if > one sets "log.diffMerges" configuration variable to "first-parent" to > force -m produce usual diff with respect to first parent only. Please make sure that you clearly state that you do not blindly force --patch output in the proposed log message. Explicitly mentioning that "git log --stat -m" would not give a patch but just diffstat would be assuring. Also this needs a test to ensure that is what happens. Having a test for "log -m" and another for "log -m --stat" would be sufficient. And in the context of this step, the rename of the member in the previous step makes quite a lot of sense. Thanks for working on this topic.
