On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 01:23, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Git 2.33 Release Notes (draft) > ============================== rc1 had a section "Backward compatibility notes" where the recent work on "git log -m" was mentioned. That was then dropped because of 6a38e33331 ("Revert 'diff-merges: let "-m" imply "-p"'", 2021-08-05), so there are no backward compatibility notes in rc2. > Updates since Git 2.32 > ---------------------- > > UI, Workflows & Features > * The "-m" option in "git log -m" that does not specify which format, > if any, of diff is desired did not have any visible effect; it now > implies some form of diff (by default "--patch") is produced. This is basically the same blurb. It was duplicated in rc1, and one of the copies remains in rc2. I believe it should be dropped. Martin