Sergey Organov <sorganov@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm not sure I follow. What "show -p" has to do with "diff-index --cc"? > > My only point here is that usage of *--cc* in *diff-index* is entirely > undocumneted, and that needs to be somehow resolved. It was a response to your "historical status quo that is a problem." I do not think there is any problem with "diff-index --cc" (except for it wants a better documentation---but that we already agree) but I wanted to give you some credit for having worked on "--diff-merges", an effort to generalize things in a related area.